How much energy does visiting a website consume?

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How much energy does visiting a website consume?

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Here's a nice little tool:

http://sympact.cs.bris.ac.uk/webenergy/bust/start
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That was really good (because I got the answers right :) ).
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Less and less every day.

Green IT Data Centre.
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But we're using more and more data. Efficiency improvements aren't keeping up with increased volume.
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No doubt the total energy burn of the networks grows as does the their size but the cost per Byte is going down.
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