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Reintroduce carbon estimate #18

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fershad opened this issue Feb 24, 2022 · 1 comment

fershad commented Feb 24, 2022

Would there be an appetite to add web page carbon estimates back to the results (removed in #16) without depending on an external API?

The calculations outlined in this post https://sustainablewebdesign.org/calculating-digital-emissions/ could be used. They are the same as is used by the Website Carbon API which was previously used.

I'd be happy to contribute a PR (with some guidance).

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fershad commented Aug 8, 2022

Continuing on from Twitter thread https://twitter.com/dgrammatiko/status/1546984584092467200

Implementation would be a modified version of #7 using the latest version of https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/co2.js.

Carbon estimates would use the Sustainable Web Design model.
Estimates would not include the assumptions that the model makes about caching and return visitors.
This would effectively give a carbon estimate for the first time a page is viewed by a visitor/cold cache visit.
As a result, the carbon estimates would be higher that those generated by a tool like Website Carbon Calculator.

@zachleat is it okay with you if I raise a PR to reintroduce a carbon estimate to the leaderboard?

fershad changed the title ~~Reintroduce carbon estimate (??)~~ Reintroduce carbon estimate

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