fyr.io

Earlier today I saw a link to websitecarbon.com. I can't find the toot that linked to this website, despite only finding it a few hours ago (sigh) so apologies to that person!

I chucked this very website through it and, happily, it reports:

Hurrah! This web page achieves a carbon rating of A+ - This is cleaner than 100 % of all web pages globally

There are more stats on the page if you click through that put some perspective on that rating, as well as a description of how they come to that conclusion. Of course, they can't know what happens on the backend. For all they know I could be mining crypto on here. What is more likely is that my functional backend code is terribly inefficient... (disclaimer: I don't mine crypto :D)

But it's nice knowing that, at least from their end, it appears as though I'm doing everything efficiently! If you have your own website, have a go at getting it analyzed, how do you fare? Are there any ways you can improve things? Write about it and/or let me know. Every little bit of recurring efficiency you can eek out of a system is good for the Earth!

I have plans to self-host this on my own (low power) equipment in the future. Then I'll truly know my impact on the environment as it pertains to hosting this site, and can more effectively enhance things myself.

Soon™.