Fad or relevant?
Marketing bullshit that appeals to some low-information, vibes-based liberals.
Greenwashing for profit.
Greenwashing, can’t believe this even is a question
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Out of curiosity I’ve let it rate Low<-Tech Magazine, a website run on an ARM SBC powered exclusively with off-grid solar power, and that only achieves 87% / A.
Eheh nice one to test! If there’s a 100% it should be that one
What the hell is a green website
https://www.vandelaydesign.com/green-websites/
Those are green websites /s
If ESG is anything to go by, just a greenwashing fad they’ll drop as soon as it doesn’t have the desired effect
If this encourages light, fast loading pages, I’m all for it.
The future is no JavaScript!!
I wish.
It’s completely negligible compared to industrial manufacturing, bitcoin mining, waste, etc.
Make a lighter website because no one gives a shit about a heavy one.
I recently saw it reported that Crypto was 2% of US electric use.
That’s a whole lot of wasted processing, silicon, heat and energy.
relevant if it sabotages coal mining infrastructure
My website is running off of spare resources on my 10w router, and yet my 30w monitor that I’ve been using for 10+ years still says that I’ve saved exactly 0.0 trees every time I turn it on. Thank you, now please fuck off with that bullshit.
Is it too difficult to post some context?
This appears to be the calculator: https://www.websitecarbon.com/
And it only appears to check the size of downloaded assets and then whether the hosting provider is known to use renewables. Indeed not terribly exhaustive or useful.
I wouldn’t visit a website that had that, and if it was a company, I’d stop using their product.
