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:

Hosting #12

Minify CSS files

Use a tool like YUI Compressor to remove unnecessary spaces and line breaks. Google’s Apache mod_pagespeed can also automate this operation.

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Hosting #90

Minimize the use of SSL certificates

Only use SSL certificates for sections and services where they are truly needed. This is because encrypting all of the HTTP data stream requires a large number of CPU power. And so encrypting a page’s static elements such as images (except the content) uses up considerable resources while presenting no benefits.

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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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