Environmental Declaration

We can see that even if the page weight increases by 60% (253kb vs 470kb), the Eco Design Level is quite similar, but most importantly the energy per minute decreases by 60% (564mWh vs 300mWh).

As explained in our article "More is Less?", this is mainly due to the main animation on our previous website, which used a lot of CPU (computer processor) resources.

These comparative results allow us to draw two conclusions:

• This site performs as well as, and sometimes better than, other low carbon/sustainable web agencies or studios.
• This website performs much better than the studios or agencies awarded on awwwards.com, which aims to recognise and promote the best in innovative web design. We must admit that the design and development efforts on websites are incredible and always an inspiration for us. But they don't take into account any environmental impact, whether direct or indirect.
  
  The comparative tests we have conducted show us striking results. Some websites can emit between 20 and over 100 kilograms of CO2e per year (depending on the model used and assuming 5,000 monthly visits) while our website is estimated to emit less than 10 kilograms of CO2e per year. Some of the websites we have estimated are extremely polluting, far exceeding the average and generating between 270 kg and 4 tonnes of CO2e per year (depending on the model used and assuming 5,000 monthly visits).
  
  Heavy websites could also have a major influence on the obsolescence of devices, as older devices might appear slow, influencing decisions to replace them faster to keep up with this kind of websites or newly developed software, asking for more and more resources.