Greening my Website
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Dear team, I have recently started my own website on WordPress (happy..), then tested my website’s carbon footprint using the websitecarbon.com tool and understand my website is not climate friendly (unhappy..)! I am trying to better understand what I can do but also if eg you already arranged for renewable power to be used for hosted websites – the websitecarbon-tool suggested you are using brown power, cannot believe it, right? Thanks for your advise, Markus
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Hi there,
I’m not sure I fully understand your issue. I visited websitecarbon.com but it does not load for me. To clarify, you are running greencolumbusblog.wordpress.com through a testing site of some kind? Is it possible that the testing site is at a different URL?
Happy to take a closer look once we can see the test results you are seeing, thanks.
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Hi and thanks for the fast response. Pls try this:
– Carbon calculator tool Website Carbon Calculator | How is your website impacting the planet?
– My wordpress url GREEN COLUMBUS – Art & Sustainability (wordpress.com)Thanks
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Hi there,
We are already reducing and offsetting our data center power emissions. You can read more in this article:
Toward zero: Reducing and offsetting our data center power emissions
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Hi there, thank you for sharing the blog by Yanir Seroussi on what the employee working group at Automattic has achieved already – really positive and hope the team there will get support from the company’s leadership to push things further.
Are there any tips on how I can optimize by website within the WordPress world to make this ‘greener’? I heard reducing image-file sizes and minimizing videos is a good way, anything else?
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besides making sure your images and videos aren’t too large, another thing you can do is use a theme that’s not too resource-intensive, like https://wordpress.com/theme/twentytwentyone
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