Fooled by the Website Carbon Calculator

Fooled by the Website Carbon Calculator

Explore the challenges and misconceptions surrounding website carbon calculators in this 20-minute conference talk. Delve into the world of green coding and measuring the environmental impacts of IT as the speaker shares their experience programming a simple frontend web app in both normal and "green" ways. Discover the unexpected difficulties encountered when attempting to measure the effects of deployed optimization techniques. Gain valuable insights into the complexities of assessing software energy consumption and the limitations of current carbon calculation tools. Learn why green coding efforts may not always yield the expected results and how to approach environmental impact assessments in web development more critically.