Make your website carbonpositive
The easiest way for developers to remove their websites’ CO2 emissions.
GET STARTEDYearly, the average website emits
2,112 kg CO2
That’s like driving from Portugal to South Korea. What does this mean on a global scale?
If the internet were a country, it’d be the
7th most polluting
As builders of things and lovers of this world wide web, we want to do better.
> How BACKSPACE works
We measure your emissions
Starting is simple: simply drop 2 lines of code on your website. Then, we tally how much data is transferred on every single visit and measure how many emissions your website produces.
| Resource | Type | Emissions |
|---|---|---|
| backspace.eco | document | 68g CO2 |
| normalize.css | stylesheet | 64g CO2 |
| polyfill.min.js | script | 25g CO2 |
| keyboard-cat.gif | image | 91g CO2 |
| jQuery.min.js | script | 6g CO2 |
| logo.png | image | 33g CO2 |
| Open Sans | font | 45g CO2 |
| Never Gonna Give You Up | media | 118g CO2 |
| p-jamlogo.gif | image | 107g CO2 |
| manifest.json | document | 36g CO2 |
| twitter.ico | image | 73g CO2 |
| analytics.js | script | 83g CO2 |
| Charlie Bit My Finger | media | 126g CO2 |
Remove them through carbon removal projects
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in 2018 that billions of tonnes of CO₂ a year may need to be captured and buried. BACKSPACE only uses high impact, certified carbon removal technologies that literally remove CO₂ emissions from the air, backed by people like Stripe, Shopify, Microsoft and more. We do not use cheap (and inneffective) carbon credits or offsets.
Currently, your CO₂ is being removed through Climeworks, who use renewable geothermal energy and waste heat to capture CO₂ directly from the air, concentrate it, and permanently sequester it underground in basaltic rock formations.
And provide insights to help reduce your emissions
Our goal is to help you reduce your emissions to a minimum, and remove what you can’t reduce. We provide everything from page insights to easy strategies you can immediately implement.
> Estimate your footprint
Every year, your website emits
0kg CO₂
That’s like charging your phone
0 times
Wear our badge & turn your individual action into a global movement
Your websites are used by hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of people — your choice will not only immediately make a positive change, but influence others to do the same.
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