ecometer

Analyse your website's ecodesign maturity

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For decision-makers and IT professionals, ECOMETER assesses the environmental impact of your online service on all phases of its life cycle.

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ECOMETER tests 115 ecodesign best practices from the reference book published by Eyrolles, with contributions by more than 34 business experts.

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Internationally intended, conducted with ADEME's financial support, ECOMETER is community driven, open-source, free and pedagogically oriented.

The results given by this tool are for educational and diagnostic purpose only, it is not intended to compare websites.
This tool is in beta version and still in active development, all given informations may change in the future.

Best pratice examples...

From design to hosting, 115 best practices are tested and explained. Here are some examples, but be sure to check the other ones:

Development #96

Encode sound outside of the CMS

Adapt and optimize sounds outside of the website because a web server is not designed to perform such operations. This saves large amounts of bandwidth and lightens the load on the CPU and RAM.

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Hosting #501

Adapt the quality of service and the service level agreement

Electricity consumption
The Quality of Service (QoS) and the Service Level Agreement (SLA) must be outlined with the website or online service’s users. For example, there is no reason to host the service in a high-availability data center (Tier IV) if the users are prepared to accept an availability of equal to or under 99% for a non-critical service. With equal energy efficiency, the more data center hosting the website or online service is available, the larger its overall environmental footprint. This is primarily because everything is mirrored and active, with dual-powered electricity and dual-powered cooling systems, etc.

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ADEME

The collaborative approch of ecometer tool's creation has been supported by ADEME Bourgogne Franche-Comté within the scope of the 2015 call for projects about Circular Economy.

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AER Atol Conseils & Développements Cadoles

Logomotion Planet Bourgogne Pulsar DS Bourgogne Franche-Comté Numérique