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For a low-tech solar powered website, it does require a lot of loading (>500Kb for the homepage, >350kb just for this article). You should optimize your images

For a low-tech solar powered website, it does require a lot of loading (>500Kb for the homepage, >350kb just for this article). You should optimize your images. This would probably drastically reduce your electricity use per unique visitor. Nice article by the way. I love the frugality.

giantrobot 6y ago
It's a solar powered Raspberry Pi! <sub>Behind CloudFlare which is not solar powered and does most of the work sending stuff to clients.</sub>
dredmorbius 6y ago
The pages are considerably optimised, including dithering images: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
- edsonmedina 6y ago
  You call 283kb optimized? In the late 90s (when websites looked exactly like that) 100kb would be considered excessive.
  - dredmorbius 6y ago
    Relative to current standards, yes. What is a typical page weight today, inclusive of all external references (images, JS, CSS)?