Approaches and Considerations to Measuring Website Energy Usage
Channel: Practical AI through Prototypes
Date: 2024-04-08

In this video, we'll look at two methods of measuring website carbon emissions - by either attributing a portion of overall energy usage to the webpage, or by calculating the energy used by each of a webpage's component parts - from the data, to the networking, to the device, and the embodied carbon of all of the equipment used to run it.  We'll discuss tradeoffs and considerations of both approaches.

Links:

Impact Framework:

Impact Framework Website Measurement Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC_E8ugf8_Oz86WzXHZ1oqVLvxZSWo4F3)

Impact Framework Getting Started Repo: https://github.com/heaversm/carbonhack-if

Impact Framework Website Measurement Plugin: https://github.com/wr24-greenit/if-webpage-plugins

Fershad Irani :

* Why are you measuring digital carbon emissions?https://fershad.com/writing/why-are-you-estimating-digital-carbon-emissions/
* Website Carbon: Beyond Data Transfer - https://fershad.com/writing/website-carbon-beyond-data-transfer/#data-transfer-network-energy-usage
* Thinking about a way to estimate website energy use - https://fershad.com/writing/thinking-about-a-way-to-estimate-website-energy-use

Guides:

Green Software for Practitioners Course - https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/green-software-for-practitioners-lfc131/

MDN Developer Curriculum](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/curriculum/

Other Data:

Apple Product Environmental Report - iPhone 14 Pro https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/iphone/iPhone_14_Pro_PER_Sept2022.pdf


Chapters:
0:00 - Overview of Measurement Approaches
1:29 - Attributional Model and the Impact Framework Website Measurement Plugin
3:41 - Using Consequential Models within the Impact Framework
5:22 - Comparing Output Files of the Impact Framework using the two approaches.
9:22 - Expert opinions on website measurement approaches
11:17 - Website Measurement and AI
12:18 - Supplementing good measurement with efficient and sustainable engineering.
12:54 - Conclusion