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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. This would probably drastically reduce your electricity use per unique visitor.

Nice article by the way. I love the frugality.

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>

The pages are considerably optimised, including dithering images: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

You call 283kb optimized?

In the late 90s (when websites looked exactly like that) 100kb would be considered excessive.

Relative to current standards, yes.

What is a typical page weight today, inclusive of all external references (images, JS, CSS)?