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 #36

Favor instant visual changes

Animations, whether created with CSS or performed by JavaScript, generate lots of repaint/reflow. It is thus better to use instant rather than animated changes in order to use less CPU resources.

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Design #5

Choose a design that is simple, clear and tailored to the web

Use the features offered by HTML5 and CSS3 to design a website. It is important that you do not attempt to build a website without first taking into account technical constraints.