Katarzyna Wojdalska

Conf42: JavaScript 2022

Digital ecology - Can you mitigate the carbon footprint of websites?

Did you know that more than 250 000 websites are published every day? The majority uses too heavy fonts, too large/unnecessary images or utilises redundant libraries. These and other factors generate the carbon footprint. Actually, one view of an average website emits 4.6 g CO2 which sums up to 553 kg CO2 annually. Unfortunately, current solutions optimise only already existing websites....