Ecometer - Analyse your website's ecodesign maturity.

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.

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

Development #48

Use static variables

When the situazion allows it, use static variables to avoid running the same code several times. You will thus prevent unnecessary CPU usage.
This is especially effective for resource-intensive procedures.

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Hosting #74

Only install essential components on the server

Uninstall any services that are not vital for running the website. This will inevitably remove daemons (programs that constantly run in the background) which drain resources such as CPU power and RAM.