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 #64

Cache the bytecode

Bytecode (called opcode for PHP) is the binary code generated from the source code. Some accelerators are able to cache bytecode, which avoids needing to recompile it from the source code every time. Less time spent compiling equals less CPU and RAM used.

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Hosting #88

Minify JavaScript files

Use a tool such as YUI Compressor to:
- remove unnecessary white spaces - remove unnecessary line breaks - remove unnecessary semi-colons - shorten local variable names