The Session does very well in terms of performance. You can see the data from the Chrome UX Report (CRUX).

What’s good for performance is good for the environment. Sure enough, The Session gets a very high score from the website carbon calculator:

Hurrah! This web page achieves a carbon rating of A+

This is cleaner than 99% of all web pages globally

But under the details about hosting it says:

Oh no, it looks like this web page uses bog standard energy

The Session is hosted on DigitalOcean, who tend to be quite tight-lipped about their energy suppliers. Fortunately others have done some sleuthing to figure out which facilities are running on green energy.

One of the locations to get the green thumnbs up is the Amsterdam facility housed by Equinix. That’s where The Session is hosted.

I’m glad that I was able to find out that the site is running on 100% renewable energy, but I wish I didn’t need to go searching to find this out. DigitalOcean need to be a lot more transparent about the energy sources for their hosting facilities.

@adactio Exactly this digging I’ve been doing too. Hosting on AMS3 thinking it was a green offering, but getting mixed signals.

For instance https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/tools/directory/ only lists LON1 from Digital Ocean as green.

Feels kind of non-conclusive to have to base it on an agency blog, right? At least for now I still don’t feel certain..

Don’t understand why its not more clarity from DO themselves on the matter.

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