Content sites often run an application server and a database for every page view, even though the pages change rarely.
The fix you can use today
Pre-render pages that rarely change as static files.
Serve them from a CDN or edge network with long cache lifetimes.
Keep server-side code only for things that really are dynamic, like forms.
GreenCode moved its own website from WordPress to static pages served from the edge.
Tools that help
Greencheck (Green Web Foundation): checks whether a domain is hosted on renewable-powered infrastructure
CO2.js (Green Web Foundation): an open-source library that turns bytes transferred into an estimate of CO2, using the Sustainable Web Design model
WebPageTest: loads a real page and shows every request, its size and when it loaded
How GreenCode helps
GreenCode helps tackle this by proving it on greencode.ai first: static pages on an edge network, WebP images and scripts only where used. A first view of the home page fell from 6,766 KB over 80 requests to 1,719 KB over 33. More on this.
