Website Carbon is a sustainability-focused platform developed by Wholegrain Digital, a UK-based digital agency specializing in sustainable web design. The site offers a free tool to calculate the carbon footprint of websites, aiming to raise awareness and promote greener internet practices. The business operates as a small but influential entity within the technology and energy sectors, providing consultancy services alongside its calculator tool. The website is professionally designed, mobile-optimized, and SEO-friendly, reflecting a mature digital presence. Technically, it leverages WordPress with modern plugins and scripts, ensuring good performance and accessibility. Security posture is solid with HTTPS enforced, though some security headers and cookie consent mechanisms are absent. The WHOIS data for the domain is unavailable, which introduces some transparency concerns despite the legitimate business appearance. Overall, the site is trustworthy and serves a niche market of environmentally conscious web professionals and organizations.
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NIS2 and GDPR posture
GDPR outside view
53/ 100 · Medium
Checks completed
7of 7
NIS2 Art. 21(2)
a(a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
b(b) Incident handling: One indicator
c(c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
d(d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
e(e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
f(f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
g(g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
h(h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
i(i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
j(j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside
Partly checked
One indicator
Not visible from outside
This scan rated NIS2 with an earlier keyword method that is no longer shown; rescan for the per-article view. Risk management, continuity, supply chain, training, MFA, management oversight (Art. 20) and incident reporting (Art. 23) need internal evidence, and Guard cannot tell whether NIS2 applies to this organisation.
GDPR is indicative only, based on publicly visible signals: Articles 7, 12, 13 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Not a certification or legal assessment.
Priority findings
8 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
Email security
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.
Critical
No email authentication configured
Domain is vulnerable to email spoofing
What to do: Implement SPF, DKIM, and DMARC immediately
High
No SPF record found
SPF helps prevent email spoofing
What to do: Add SPF record: "v=spf1 include:_spf.yourmailprovider.com ~all"
Security headers are instructions your web server sends to every visitor’s browser. Missing ones leave visitors more exposed to attacks such as clickjacking and injected scripts.
High
Missing Strict-Transport-Security header
Forces HTTPS connections
What to do: Add "Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"
This scan found 25 issues across 6 checks. Monitoring re-runs those checks daily, emails you when something material changes and records each fix, so you can show progress.
Daily monitoring
Recommended
€25per month
TLS certificates and expiry
DNS records
SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Security headers
GDPR and NIS2 posture
Exposed services
Third-party trackers
Security score drift
Email alerts on material changes and an exportable JSON history of every change.
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Results by check
Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
How this score is calculated
The security score runs 0–100, higher is better. It is the plain average of the security checks that completed in this scan, each counted equally. A check that could not run is left out: it counts neither as a pass nor as a fail.
Counted in this score
SSL/TLS
75
Security headers
25
Email security
40
DNS health
70
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
53
Average
61
Not counted
NIS2 outside view: Re-weights evidence from the TLS, email, DNS, network and hygiene checks, so counting it would count that evidence twice. Shown on its own.
OffSeq Observations: An AI reading of the site, useful context but not reproducible evidence. Shown on its own.
Findings that cap the score at 49
Each of these is serious on its own, so while any is present the site cannot rate better than high risk, however good the other checks are.
The certificate is not trusted by browsers
The website is not served over HTTPS
A database, remote desktop, file-sharing or Telnet service is reachable from the internet
The page loads a script from a compromised source
The domain registration has expired
SPF authorises every server to send mail as the domain
Partial scans
When the site blocks Guard or most checks cannot run, the score covers only the checks that ran (usually DNS and email), is capped at 75 and is shown as partial, without a risk level.
Risk levels
Critical0–25
High26–49
Medium50–75
Low76–100
Breach exposure
Leaked credentials and lookalike domains from OffSeq Breach. The counts are free; the detailed lists are paid add-ons.
Dark web exposure
Add-on
Leaked records that mention websitecarbon.com, from OffSeq Breach.
No leaked records found
Breach holds no records for websitecarbon.com right now. New leaks arrive continuously, so monitoring on Breach alerts you if that changes.
Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Business context
Business profile
The company positions itself as a pioneer in sustainable web design, leveraging its expertise to offer both a free carbon calculator and consultancy services. Its market advantage lies in early adoption and thought leadership in digital sustainability. Revenue likely stems from consultancy engagements and related services. The target audience includes web developers, site owners, and sustainability advocates. Partnerships with notable companies and clear branding reinforce its credibility. The parent company Scamper Ltd is registered in the UK, supporting the business's legitimacy. Growth indicators include continuous updates to the calculator model and active content marketing. The ecosystem includes related domains such as wholegraindigital.com, which acts as the parent and service provider.
Security posture
The website demonstrates a good security baseline with HTTPS and nonce-protected AJAX calls. However, the absence of key security headers like Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options reduces defense-in-depth. No incident response or security policy information is published, which could hinder transparency and readiness. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected in the HTML content. Privacy compliance is partially addressed with a privacy policy but lacks cookie consent mechanisms. Overall, the security maturity is moderate, suitable for the business scale but with room for improvement to meet higher compliance standards.
Recommendations
Implement comprehensive security headers including Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options to enhance protection against common web attacks.
Add a cookie consent banner or mechanism to comply with GDPR and improve user privacy transparency.
Publish a formal security policy and incident response plan on the website to build trust and demonstrate preparedness.
Improve WHOIS transparency by ensuring domain registration details are publicly available or justified if privacy-protected.
Regularly audit third-party scripts and tracking services to minimize privacy risks and maintain minimal user tracking.
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
Business
Company
Wholegrain Digital
Description
The original website carbon calculator tool, brought to you by Wholegrain Digital, London's original sustainable WordPress agency.
Key services
Website carbon footprint calculation, Digital sustainability consultancy, Sustainable web design resources
Content quality
excellent
Branding
consistent
Technology
Stack
jQuery, Yoast SEO plugin, ShortPixel Adaptive Images, WordPress
Frameworks
WordPress theme: carbon-calculator-theme
Platforms
WordPress CMS
Performance
fast
Mobile
excellent
Accessibility
good
SEO
excellent
Security
Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
HTTPS enforced
No exposed sensitive data in HTML
Use of nonce for AJAX calls
Analytics and tracking
Tracking level
minimal
Privacy practices
good
Advertising
Tracking pixels
events.wholegraindigital.workers.dev
Transparency
basic
Site quality
Design
excellent
User experience
excellent
Content relevance
excellent
Navigation
excellent
Professionalism
excellent
Trustworthiness
high
Key observations
Website is fully accessible with rich content and interactive form
No WAF or blocking mechanisms detected
WHOIS data unavailable, raising transparency concerns
Strong focus on sustainability and carbon footprint awareness
Professional design and good SEO practices
No explicit or adult content detected
No visible security headers beyond HTTPS
No cookie consent mechanism present
Technical notes
Notes
The website is built on WordPress using a custom theme focused on sustainability. It uses jQuery and Yoast SEO for enhanced functionality and search optimization. Images are optimized with ShortPixel Adaptive Images, contributing to fast load times and good performance scores. The site is mobile responsive and accessible, with semantic HTML and ARIA landmarks. AJAX is used for form submissions with nonce tokens for security. No major technical debt or outdated libraries were detected. Hosting provider details are not explicitly stated, but renewable energy hosting is claimed. Overall, the technical infrastructure is modern, efficient, and aligned with the site's sustainability mission.
Standards and sources
Reference chips under each finding point to the standard, regulation or specification the finding relates to. They are taken from the official datasets below and mapped conservatively: a finding with no defensible link shows none. NIS2 and GDPR references mark where a finding is relevant evidence, not a compliance verdict. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 binds digital infrastructure and digital service providers; for other entities it is the most detailed public reading of the Article 21 measures. WCAG, EN 301 549, European Accessibility Act and Web Accessibility Directive references name the requirement an automated accessibility rule relates to; they are not a conformance verdict.
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