How does Cleanbits calculate the energy consumption of my individual web site?
It is not possible to calculate the exact energy consumption (hence, CO2 emission) of every single website. This data is simply not traceable at the data centers. So in order to be as accurate as possible, Cleanbits has executed an exhaustive estimation in order to define the average electricity consumption of a web site. This is based on a hundred thousand domain statistics from a number of datacenters including for example the energy use of email traffic, network equipment, emergency generators and cooling systems. This together with the average traffic to your site should give an indication ‘advise’ of your sites energy use and hence CO2 emission. This is merely an average indication and does not suffice to be 100% accurate for each and every website.
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