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Calculating the carbon emissions of Dutch national government websites
Loof, E. (2025) Calculating the carbon emissions of Dutch national government websites.
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| Abstract: | In the last few years, the world has become very dependent on the internet and on visiting websites using the internet. A big problem with this is that electricity is consumed each time a user visits and interacts with a website. Considering that most data centres are not running on green electricity, carbon is emitted whenever a user visits and interacts with a website. Motivated by the need to understand the environmental footprint of digital services we investigate the cost of visiting and interacting with websites of the Dutch national government in terms of carbon emissions in this paper. We found that 1103 out of the 1748 websites hosted by the Dutch national government are verified to be green. To estimate the carbon emissions of a typical browsing session we simulated a representative browsing session for 595 websites, where we recorded the amount of traffic produced by this session. Based on this we found that the average CO2 emission for a representative browsing session is 0.015 grams of CO2. On average, the biggest opportunity for improvement was improving the page rendering of the websites. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Subject: | 54 computer science |
| Programme: | Computer Science BSc (56964) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/105136 |
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