Search Engine Description
undefined-landmark opened this issue · 7 comments
Hi,
Whilst searching for the dashboard on google and duckduckgo I noticed that there is no description available. index.html seems to want to fix this but I guess it's just not included anywhere (?). Maybe putting it in a www directory would be a solution? I'm interested in hearing your experience with index.html.
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And happy holidays of course :)
Good point. To my knowledge I haven't found a good solution to this.
Basically, we just put an index.html page in the repo that contains the app in an iframe. Then we use Github pages to host that page.
The only issue is the url would change from https://jhelvy.shinyapps.io/splitkbcompare/ to https://jhelvy.github.io/splitkbcompare/
Not really that big of a change imo, but I'd have to get the link updated in Reddit too.
So currently index.html has no use? Since it's already there we could setup Github pages without too much effort. But it's a bit neater to have only one link to the dashboard imo. I'd just leave it like this and maybe remove index.html from the repo.
Yeah I had apparently put index.html in there a long time ago to do exactly what I said - host the app on Github pages via an iframe. Looks like I turned pages off though, and I forgot why. I think it was just loading very slowly or something so I just abandoned it, but I left the index.html file there.
Just turned pages back on and now it looks like it's working just fine: https://jhelvy.github.io/splitKbCompare/
I don't notice any difference in terms of speed. I'm not that up to date with github pages, but if there's some benefit in using it in combination with shinyapps.io that's nice!
Yes, I think one benefit is that it might show up in search engines, but also it gives me other flexibility in terms of hosting it elsewhere since all I need to do is point something to that index.html file.
For example, I just created a netlify site and pointed it to this repo. It found the index.html file and deployed it: https://splitkbcompare.netlify.app/
With a tiny bit more effort I think I might be able to make it a subdomain of my personal site, like https://splitkbcompare.jhelvy.com
Good stuff! Seems like index.html is pretty useful after all :).