Tables
In one sentence
Rows and columns for comparisons, specifications, or anything with more than two dimensions.
Analogy Mental model
A spreadsheet against a paragraph. Products A, B and C down the side, price, weight and rating across the top, and the choice becomes visible at a glance.
In practice What you actually do
Comparisons, pricing tiers, specifications, statistics. Mark up the table so the engine can lift it, because a comparison table is one of the formats that can appear directly in a result.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Check the phone. A wide table that needs horizontal scrolling is a table nobody reads. An image of a table is invisible to search, uncopyable, and heavier than the HTML it replaced.
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