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Sustainable Web Design Model

An open methodology for estimating a web page's carbon emissions from transferred data, splitting the energy of a page view between datacentre, transport network, user device and amortised hardware manufacturing.

Known aliases

Sustainable Web Design v3
SWD
SWD v3

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Sustainable Web Design v3 bills a phone's factory carbon as a fixed share of transferred bytes

Per-byte web carbon accounting treats hardware manufacturing as a proportion of payload. Embodied carbon is fixed at the factory and spread over however long someone keeps the phone, and page weight has no bearing on how long that is.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption15
Hype gap−10
Incentives45
Confidence55