Impact
Web today
IT sector
IT sector is said to use 20% of the total energy consumption of the world1.
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pie title Energy consumption of the world
"IT-sector" : 20
"Rest" : 80
Clearnet
pie title The net
"Clearnet" : 10
"Darknet + non-indexable web" : 90
The size of the ‘clearnet’ is estimated to 4-10% (definition of clearnet would be “the surface web, the portion of the internet that is indexed by search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo”)2.
Taking the higher 10% this leads to 2% of the worlds energy consumption.
Wordpress
WordPress sites makes up 43% of the ‘clearnet’
pie title Clearnet
"Wordpress" : 43
"Rest" : 57
Impact
If we replace all wordpress sites the energy consumption in the world would go down by almost 1%.
pie title Impact
"Our possible impact" : 1
"Rest of energy consumption" : 99
| Label | Calculation |
|---|---|
| Energy consumption of WordPress sites in the world (43% of the 2%) | 0.86% |
| Energy consumption with CradleCMS instead (Our system handles 10 times as many request on the same server capacity) | 0.086% |
| Total save of the energy consumption in the world (0.86% - 0.086%) | 0.774 % |
And we are only 0,000000005 % of the world