On publico.pt, advertising and tracking add ≈ 2,778 g CO₂ per million pageviews (1,590 g from ad-serving alone) — 0.5× the index average, cleaner than 42% of the sites we measure.
Ad-relevant
2778
g CO₂ / 1M pageviews
Ad-serving only
1590
g CO₂ / 1M pageviews
33
kg CO₂ / year at 1M pageviews per month
42
% cleaner than the DACH index
43
% 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 →