- 1.Does website kill trees? No
- One third of all the wood harvested in U.S. is used to make paper. So why spend it on printing content from Internet that already exists on your screen? Our artificial intelligence can not ignore the aspect of printing web pages, so Greendex is trying to find their “print me” buttons and other evidences of destroying environment.
- 2.Does site load fast? Yes
- How much of your time does this resource waste while loading? How much of world’s energy resources does it burn? Knowing the server-response time we have roughly estimated the energy spent on website loading. Greendex likes fast sites better — probably as you do.
- 3.Does Google like this site? No
- Is this resource meaningful somehow? We have no power to decide whether the site makes sense or not but Google does. That’s why our Greendex is impossible without taking into account their PageRank results.
- 4.Are there good and kind words on the homepage? Yes
- Although our artificial intelligence does not know whether this website makes our world better, we still love to read kind, environmentally-responsible and socially-significant words on websites.
- 5.Does this website follow the Internet standards? No
- Technically well-organized sites are faster, cleaner and more energy-efficient. Also, they are more likely to appear in top lines of relevant search results. The service of W3C Markup Validator helps our Greendex to be more competent and affects the sites’ greenness.
- 6.Does Flash exist here? Yes
- Flash sites are known to draw more power from both your computer and their server. A Flash-heavy site can increase the power that PC is consuming for web-surfing by more than 40%.
- 7.Does this site use uncommon JavaScript? No
- Sites with JavaScript can also be energy-consuming. Though we can’t now imagine any progressive site without it, our Greendex is glad to find whether most-common JS-frameworks or none of them at all.
- 8.Is site’s structure made with CSS, not tables? Yes
- Just follow trends in minifying code size, fastening markup creation and simplifying site evolution. Greendex likes sites that are made using up-to-date standards and technologies, i.e. div markup.
- 9.Does this site use any popular components? No
- Internet-world is so rich for convenient and handy solutions for site-creators. Our Green IT index appreciates websites that are not reinventing wheels while meeting their business needs and that are using the long experience and wisdom of web-community. That’s why web-sites with integrated third-party components are greener.
- 10.Does this site share its content with the world? No
- Can you read news from this site remotely, without visiting its origin pages? Can you avoid loading its nice background images each time and just enjoy pure information? If site has RSS-feeds, sharing options or social bookmarking services we believe it gives additional plus to its karma and therefore to its Greendex. And yes, adding RSS-feeds to your surfing habits can save energy too.
