[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #58494: Reduce frequency of https check when https is already working

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#58494: Reduce frequency of https check when https is already working
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 Reporter:  adamsilverstein  |       Owner:  adamsilverstein
     Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Security         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch      |     Focuses:  sustainability
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Changes (by adamsilverstein):

 * keywords:  has-patch => needs-patch


Comment:

 As a back of the envelope estimation, this will result in the following
 energy savings

 **Assumptions**
 ~80% of sites use https already [https://w3techs.com/technologies/details
 /ce-httpsdefault reference]
 ~ 810 Million sites run WordPress [https://colorlib.com/wp/wordpress-
 statistics/ reference]
 ~ request energy intensity figure is 0.0065 kWh/GB
 [https://www.devsustainability.com/p/approaches-to-calculating-network-
 website-energy-and-carbon reference]
 ~ median page weight is 2MB [https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/page-
 weight reference]

 **Math**
 ~ 648 million sites will reduce requests from ~60/month to 4/month, a
 reduction of 56 requests or 36288000000 requests
 ~ at 2mb average that amounts to 72576000 GB of savings

 Total estimated savings of 47,1744 KwH
 ~

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