The Little Forest Web Sustainability feature is perfect for organisations with extensive web estates who are committed to reducing their digital carbon footprint. An addition to the Domain Registry feature, our platform helps you gain insights into the environmental impact of each site within your portfolio, enabling actionable steps toward eco-friendly web practices. By identifying key metrics, from page weight to carbon emissions, you can make informed decisions about design, hosting, and resource optimisation across your entire web presence.
The Web Sustainability Feature
The Web Sustainability feature is a view which you can activate within your Domain Registry in Little Forest.
It allows you to take a look across your full web estate at the following metrics:
The Data Points
- Ecograder Score
- Receive an overall sustainability score, rated out of 100, which evaluates the environmental performance of each website. This score empowers you to track and enhance your web estate’s eco-friendliness over time.
- Page Weight
- Understand the size of each page in megabytes and compare it to the average for web pages. By pinpointing high-weight pages, you can optimise loading times and minimise bandwidth usage, creating a lighter, greener web experience for users.
- Weight Breakdown (KB)
- Get a detailed view of each page’s asset sizes, broken down by type (Script, XHR, Document, Image, Stylesheet, Font, Other). This allows you to identify which assets consume the most resources and address any inefficiencies.
- Weight Breakdown Percentage
- View each asset type as a percentage of total page weight. This insight helps you understand the distribution of resource usage on your pages, enabling more targeted optimisations.
- Page Emissions
- Estimate the carbon emissions per pageview, allowing you to see the environmental cost of web traffic. Our emissions calculations provide you with actionable data to reduce your carbon footprint.
- Server Location
- See where each site is hosted, revealing server locations and the associated environmental impacts of data transfer. This information helps in assessing server efficiency and potential alternatives.
- Green Hosting
- Assess whether your hosting provider uses renewable energy sources, with a clear yes or no result. This helps you understand the energy sources powering your sites and make environmentally conscious hosting decisions.
Benefits of the Web Sustainability Feature
- Reduce Carbon Footprint Across Your Web Estate:
By understanding page weight, emissions, and hosting impacts, you can make data-driven changes to reduce energy consumption and lower emissions. - Drive Sustainable User Experiences:
Lighter, optimised pages load faster, improving user experience while also being eco-friendly. This results in increased user satisfaction and engagement. - Optimise Resource Use:
Identifying large or inefficient assets allows you to prioritise areas for improvement, resulting in faster sites with a reduced environmental footprint. - Enhance Brand Reputation:
Demonstrate a commitment to sustainability that resonates with environmentally conscious users, partners, and stakeholders.
Equip your organisation with insights that lead to greener practices and help protect the environment. Discover the impact of each page and every hosting choice with our Web Sustainability feature and become a leader in responsible digital practices.
