My website is rated ‘A’ on the Website Carbon Rating System

I have been testing the new Website Carbon Rating System, which tests websites against a number of sustainability measures, and I am pleased to announce that my website has achieved a rating of A.

This is very pleasing and is the result of a number of sustainable web development and web design principles, and a lot of hard work. I detailed these methods in a previous article, but there are a number of factors at play, including:

• Green Hosting
• Server caching
• Optimised Images

This all results in a website that runs purely on green energy, with a hosting company that has an environmental standpoint, a site that loads quickly and runs efficiently.

The results

After many years of implementing sustainable we development principles, I tested my site. The result is that my website is cleaner than 86% of all web pages globally, so is way cleaner than average, emitting a theoretical 0.15g of CO2 per page load (if it didn’t run on clean energy, which it does).

Next Steps

The good thing is that it also gives me room for improvement. My next goal is to get the site into the 90% bracket and to achieve an A+ which I have set as a target for 2024. I have a number of potential improvements from better cacheing and reducing the number of images on my site, which should help to push it towards an A+ rating.

I use WordPress for my website and I find it offers so many good options in terms of reducing the server load and crucially, reducing a website’s environmental impact.

Volunteering, Donations and offsets

In addition to this I also undertake volunteering, donations and offsets in order to further reduce my company’s impact and actually have a positive impact through my work.

So, here’s looking forward to getting that A+.