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Sustainable Web Design · An A List Apart Article
▻http://alistapart.com/article/sustainable-web-design
What is the web’s carbon footprint?
– A 2008 paper from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory suggests it takes 13kWh to transmit 1GB.
– 15.6 pounds of CO2e—and that’s just to transfer 1GB of data.
– If one million users each download a typical page, which now averages 1.4MB, that’s a total of (...) more than 10 tons of CO2e.
– Mobile data, with its reliance on 3G/4G, is up to five times more polluting—77 pounds CO2 per gigabyte.
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Based on these figures, we can estimate that a site the size of Tumblr, with 183 million pageviews per day and approximately 10 percent of those from mobile, has the potential to be responsible for a staggering 2,600 tons of CO2 daily.
