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Fershad Irani
Personal blog · fershad.com/writingwebscience
Fershad Irani's personal blog at fershad.com covers web and science. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “This Website Is Carbon Aware”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on the power consumption of JPEG, WebP and AVIF images. One commenter discusses how the site itself serves a lighter version based on the visitor's grid carbon intensity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hey, I'm Fershad. I am a digital sustainability consultant working with the Green Web Foundation towards a fossil free internet by 2030.
Most-linked posts?
- This Website Is Carbon Aware3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-30
What Hacker News says?
> The grid intensity in your location is 387 g/kWh. That's higher than average, so this site has been modified to use less power on your device. Interesting, my location has "high grid intensity", so it showed me a lite version, with low-res images and some JS <script> tags commented out. But the author explains the steps to determine this: 1. A Cloudflare Worker checks the request object for the country a visitor i…
Comment linking /carbon-aware-site/
on “Power Consumption of JPEG, WebP, and AVIF”Submitted We nearly had power profiling in Chromium as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Power Grid-Aware Website as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted This Website Is Carbon Aware as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted This Website Is Carbon Aware as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How eco-friendly is the COP26 website? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Power Consumption of JPEG, WebP, and AVIF as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CO2e Estimates in Firefox Profiler as a story · 1 points
HN discussion