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:

Hosting #67

Use 'green' electricity

Greenhouse gas emissions
To keep the website running, use electricity that either comes from renewable energy sources, or which has been certified ‘neutral’ by EECS certificates (European Energy Certificate System).

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Development #18

Generate CSS sprite sheets

Group small images (e.g. the website’s interface images) in one larger image called a sprite sheet
This process significantly reduces the number of HTTP requests. There are several free online services for generating sprite sheets (Project Fondue’s CSS Sprite Generator, CSSsprites.com and SpriteMe.org).