On holidaycheck.de, advertising and tracking add ≈ 6,969 g CO₂ per million pageviews (1,997 g from ad-serving alone) — 1.3× the index average, cleaner than 23% of the sites we measure.
Ad-relevant
6969
g CO₂ / 1M pageviews
Ad-serving only
1997
g CO₂ / 1M pageviews
84
kg CO₂ / year at 1M pageviews per month
23
% cleaner than the DACH index
71
% of the footprint is tracking overhead, not ad-serving
Measured on the live electricity grid from public page-load data — an estimate of a site's ad-tech architecture, not a measured campaign figure. See the methodology →