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:

Design #24

Use as few plugins as possible

Avoid using plugins (Flash Player, Java and Silverlight virtual machines, etc.) because they can be a heavy drain on resources (CPU and RAM). This is especially true with Adobe’s Flash Player, to such an extent that Apple decided to not install the technology on its mobile devices to maximize battery life. Favor standard technology such as HTML5 and ECMAScript.

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Development #62

Use single quotes (') instead of double (“)

You can use either single (‘) or double (“) quotes to declare a character string in PHP. Double quotes allow the developer to insert variables which will be substituted when run.
But if the character string has no variables, use single quotes instead. This stops the PHP from looking for variables to substitute, reducing CPU usage.