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 #55

Avoid running SQL queries inside a loop

SQL queries inside a loop seriously hinder performance, especially if the SQL server(s) are not on the local machine. That is because these servers are designed to handle several selections, insertions or modifications in one single query or transaction.
Wrongly used, these queries unnecessarily consume CPU power, RAM and bandwidth.

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Design #112

Employ asynchronous processing when possible

When the interaction with the user results in long and heavy processing by the server, employ asynchronous processing when possible. The idea is to encourage the user to trigger the processing and then reconnect once it is complete e.g. by receiving an email with a link.
This method allows processing to be done in batches, often more efficient in terms of resources than on-the-fly synchronous processing. This frees up the presentation servers so that they can handle other users while the processing is handled asynchronously server-side.

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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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