Proposal pilot · GCoM Website Maintenance & Development

Measured 2026-10-02

Performance and page weight

Headless Chromium, cache disabled, page load to network idle. Transfer = compressed bytes received (Chrome DevTools Protocol). Median of 3 runs per page, live site and pilot measured in the same session.

PageVersionLoad to idleRequestsTransfergCO2e / visit
Our Cities (desktop)Live site8.1 s562.1 MB0.36
Pilot1.4 s13453 KB 79% less0.08
Our Cities (mobile)Live site7.0 s562.1 MB0.36
Pilot1.5 s13453 KB 79% less0.08
City profileLive site4.8 s451.4 MB0.24
Pilot1.3 s12154 KB 89% less0.03

gCO2e per visit: Sustainable Web Design model (0.36 kWh/GB, 494 gCO2e/kWh global grid average), first visit, uncached.