Digital Sustainability

At Ecohuerto Salduie we apply permaculture principles to our digital presence: minimal impact, maximum efficiency and respect for resources. Here's how we measure and reduce our online carbon footprint.

Green hosting

This website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, a platform that serves content directly from its global edge network, eliminating centralised servers and reducing latency. Cloudflare offsets its emissions and is verified by The Green Web Foundation. Static content is generated with Astro, enabling pre-rendered HTML delivery without per-visit processing.

Low-carbon web design

Every design decision is made to minimize energy consumption per visit:

  • Optimized font loading: only the necessary typeface variants are loaded with local WOFF2 files.
  • AVIF/WebP images with lazy loading and explicit dimensions.
  • CSS content-visibility: auto so the browser only renders visible content.
  • No unnecessary JavaScript: only React islands for essential interactive components.
  • Inline SVGs for icons: zero extra requests for decorative graphics.
  • Zero third-party requests: all fonts, icons, textures and images are served from our own domain, eliminating external connections that consume additional energy.
  • Optimised caching: static assets use Cache-Control immutable (1 year) and HTML pages use stale-while-revalidate for returning visitors, reducing data transfer.
  • Image optimisation pipeline: automated scripts using sharp recompress and convert images to modern formats (AVIF/WebP) at optimised quality for minimal weight without perceptible loss.

Emissions measurement

We use websitecarbon.com to verify the grams of CO₂ emitted per visit to our site. Results are updated periodically and displayed transparently in our footer.

We have verified 8 pages of the site on websitecarbon.com (SWD v4), achieving ratings between A (0.04g CO₂/visit) and B (0.11g CO₂/visit). The model estimates emissions based on page weight, server infrastructure and user device energy consumption. Results are updated periodically and displayed in each page's footer.

Digital permaculture

Just like in the garden, we apply permaculture principles to our website:

  • Observe and interact: we monitor performance and emissions to make informed decisions.
  • Produce no waste: every kilobyte saved is energy and CO₂ not emitted.
  • Use small and slow solutions: we prefer static HTML and CSS over heavy frameworks.

Last reviewed: July 2026