Removing 500kb from your website that is visited on average 20000 times monthly can save 1475.000g CO2
And it still can be functional, efficient and attract people.
This is the same as
planting trees
or
of Eating beef
(25 kg CO2 per kg of beef)
or
Driving Toyota Corolla for kilometers.
(158 g CO2 per km)
1 Dany Vankooten - Website Carbon Emmision
2 State of the web - average website size