Carbon Footprint Tracking
Measure your website's environmental impact and CO₂ emissions.
Carbon Footprint Tracking
What It Measures
Every website has an environmental impact. LemWatch estimates your site's carbon footprint based on:
- Page size — Larger pages require more energy to transfer
- Green hosting — Whether your server runs on renewable energy
- Data transfer — CO₂ produced per page load
- Energy consumption — Estimated kWh per visit
Metrics
Metric — What it means —
CO₂ per visit — Grams of CO₂ produced each time someone loads your page —
Energy (kWh) — Kilowatt-hours consumed per page load —
Cleaner than X% — How your site compares to others globally —
Green hosted — Whether your server uses renewable energy —
How to Improve
- Optimise images — Use WebP/AVIF, compress, lazy-load
- Reduce JavaScript — Smaller bundles = less energy
- Choose green hosting — Providers powered by renewable energy
- Use a CDN — Shorter data paths = less energy
- Cache aggressively — Fewer server requests = less processing
Where to Find It
Navigate to your site's detail page and look for the Carbon tab. Data refreshes with each site check.