A small thing we take seriously

How green is this page?

Every website burns a little energy each time it loads. We measured ours, honestly, with the same method the Website Carbon project uses — and we keep it light on purpose.

How we keep it light

• No idle servers. The site runs on Cloudflare Workers — code executes only for the milliseconds a page is actually requested, then stops. There's no power-hungry server humming all night.
• Renewable-matched edge. Cloudflare matches its energy use with renewables and runs from a data centre near you, so bytes travel a short distance.
• Static-first & cached. The menu is server-rendered once and cached; images load only as you scroll (lazy-loading), so you download just what you see.
• Right-sized fonts. We self-host only the Latin characters of our three typefaces — no unused Cyrillic, Vietnamese or extended language packs — which alone trims about 370 KB off every first visit.
• Lean by default. No heavy frameworks, video auto-play or tracking bloat.

Measured, not guessed

We measured the real bytes this page transfers on a fresh visit and ran them through CO2.js using the Sustainable Web Design Model (v4). Green-hosting status is confirmed live by The Green Web Foundation. Last assessed 6 June 2026. On a non-green host the same page would emit about 0.19 g.

Where we can still do better

Our heritage typefaces are now Latin-subset and self-hosted, so the remaining weight is mostly the featured-dish photography and the soft paper texture that give Upali's its hand-printed feel. We think the warmth is worth it, and we keep compressing images and textures so it stays in the green.

* Illustrative comparison: boiling ~1 litre in an electric kettle is roughly 70 g CO₂. Carbon figures are modelled estimates, not exact measurements.