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How Improving WebsitePerformance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving WebsitePerformance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00.
Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites. He was wondering about the specifics of web tech, like… If you do this in HTML it will consume 3× energy but if you do it in JavaScript it will consume 10 ×. I can guess that maps pretty well to other platforms and other performance metrics.
They can do crawling and indexing through renewable energy sources such as solar or wind power. Another way is to build and optimize algorithms that can reduce the amount of energy needed for indexing and crawling websites. If they don’t achieve this simple objective, they will fail to get a competitive edge.
As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. One tool that uses this data to estimate the carbon emissions of a single page is the Website Carbon Calculator.
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