Earth Notes: On Website Technicals (2019-11)

I have been trying to resolve a minor style issue for a while. How should I capitalise my headings H1, H2 ... H6 especially as I am now typically using H3 for FAQ questions?

(I basically never use H5 and H6, and only rarely use H4.)

Typically, for headlines, I like to Capitalise All Significant Words. That makes sense for the single H1 that I have on each page for the title and headline.

It also makes sense for H2, which I use for the major sectional headings in most pages.

Capitalising all significant words looks a bit strange for questions in FAQs, especially when (for example) Google scoops them up into rich search results.

Also, until today, I have styled H1, H2 and H3 to be sans-serif.

From today, just H1 and H2 are sans-serif and should be the only all-significant-word capitalisation.

I feel better with that off my chest.

(I also created some additional log filtering today which shows that about half my pages, including most of these Site Technicals, are essentially never read. That accords with Google Search Console reporting them not in G's index.)

I have just made the GB electricity grid computation be logged live under data/FUELINST/log/live/.

This will allow retrospective more detailed calculations of local (16WW) carbon footprint from power flows ie generation, imports, exports and consumption.

Note that the logging rate will not be constant, eg will drop when available energy (ie the off-grid battery) is low. Logging will stop while fresh data is not available from Elexon.

GSC (Google Search Console) has introduced an 'experimental' Speed sub-section of Enhancements today, it seems.

Happily it rates all the desktop (www.) pages that it is prepared to talk about as 'fast'.

However it rates all of what it calls my 'valid' mobile pages (just amp., not m.) as 'moderate', apparently in part because of the time to load the core AMP script!

The GSC-reported aggregate FCP (First Contentful Paint) value is far higher than PageSpeed Insights run directly on any of the GSC-mentioned 'moderate' pages (1.1s vs 0.7s).

I think that the ad load does not help either, so I'm trying cutting back ads on non-desktop pages generally. For example, not inserting a footer ad, which would likely be poorer value-per-byte than other ad slots.

I may drop ads from a larger set of less-popular non-desktop pages, to make them lighter and thus more likely to appear in search. In any case, if sufficiently far down the tail their revenue loss is likely to be insignificant.

I could in future give in and use AutoAds to more-dynamically adjust ad load. Though not being able to adjust desktop and non-desktop separately is not good.