GreenWebAdvisor: Discovering and Recommending Hidden Eco-Design' Best-Practices

Every day, web applications proliferate on the internet, waste critical quantities of energy, and emit a substantial mass of CO2. Developers of these web applications often fail to implement software eco-design tenets, either because they are unaware of such tenets, or because they lack practical tools to assist them. Thus, in this abstract paper, we introduce GreenWebAdvisor, an intuitive eco-design framework that assists developers in building green web applications. GreenWebAdvisor 1) monitors the carbon emissions of web applications, 2) assesses their eco-designess, and 3) provides developers with coding best practices recommendations to optimize the energy use and the carbon footprint of Web applications. Compared to existing tools, GreenWebAdvisor goes beyond static practice recommendations by leveraging artificial intelligence algorithms to discover hidden good/bad practice patterns and ultimately provide richer eco-optimization suggestions to developers.