From f7a0a7f263fe9b3fb2bd80b5aface8b7be640b32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abdessamad Derraz <3028866+Abdess@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 08:41:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: keep the date and Next steps out of search

A query word matches the start of a longer word. Since the index grew,
the "2" of "playstation 2 bios" matched the 2026 of every page's date
line and the "u" of "wii u bios" the "use" of Next steps, so the
PlayStation and Nintendo pages held every query word and ranked above
the PlayStation 2 and Wii U pages. Both blocks carry
data-pagefind-ignore now: search_gate answers 58 of 58 queries, the
four console pairs by 9 to 14 percent. Batocera's pages weigh 882
bytes more for it.
---
 scripts/generate_site.py            | 10 +++++++---
 scripts/sitestarlight.py            |  5 +++++
 tests/test_site_platform_density.py |  6 ++++--
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/generate_site.py b/scripts/generate_site.py
index a0d16497b..34369fd51 100644
--- a/scripts/generate_site.py
+++ b/scripts/generate_site.py
@@ -402,8 +402,11 @@ def data_as_of(moment: datetime | None = None) -> str:
 
 
 def _date_line() -> str:
-    """The date a page closes on, in the words of data_as_of()."""
-    return f'<div class="rb-timestamp">{data_as_of()}.</div>'
+    """The date a page closes on, in the words of data_as_of(). The search
+    does not read it: a query word such as the "2" of "playstation 2 bios"
+    also matches the start of "2026", and every page closing on the date
+    then held every word of the query."""
+    return f'<div class="rb-timestamp" data-pagefind-ignore>{data_as_of()}.</div>'
 
 
 # Home page
@@ -5523,7 +5526,8 @@ def generate_provenance_page(
     lines = [
         "# Dump provenance",
         "",
-        *([f'<p class="rb-timestamp">Catalogs as of: {as_of}.</p>', ""] if as_of else []),
+        *([f'<p class="rb-timestamp" data-pagefind-ignore>Catalogs as of: {as_of}.</p>', ""]
+          if as_of else []),
         "Provenance says whether a file is, byte for byte, a dump that Redump, "
         "No-Intro or TOSEC catalogues. It says where a dump is known from, "
         "not whether an emulator accepts it: that is the emulator's code, read "
diff --git a/scripts/sitestarlight.py b/scripts/sitestarlight.py
index e8934b690..4bd8305e3 100644
--- a/scripts/sitestarlight.py
+++ b/scripts/sitestarlight.py
@@ -577,6 +577,11 @@ def finalize_page(
     # is a name, and stays: it is how "neogeo.zip" finds the cores reading it.
     body = re.sub(r'<span class="(rb-badge(?![^"]*rb-badge-archive)[^"]*)"',
                   r'<span data-pagefind-ignore class="\1"', body)
+    # "Next steps" closes most pages with the same links ("for the setup in
+    # use"): the "u" of "wii u bios" matched the start of "use" there, and
+    # the Nintendo page came before the Wii U page.
+    body = _NEXT_STEPS.sub(
+        lambda match: f"<div data-pagefind-ignore>\n\n{match[0].rstrip()}\n\n</div>\n\n", body, count=1)
     if rel.startswith("systems/"):
         body += file_names_meta(body) + search_field("aliases", page_aliases(rel))
     consoles = field_words(authored.get("consoles"))
diff --git a/tests/test_site_platform_density.py b/tests/test_site_platform_density.py
index 4421bbc04..aa576e756 100644
--- a/tests/test_site_platform_density.py
+++ b/tests/test_site_platform_density.py
@@ -268,8 +268,10 @@ BEFORE_WEIGHT = {
     # Elektronika BK, FM Towns and Nintendo DS moved to part pages. Built
     # site of 27c33b966: 13 pages, 15,662 elements, 1,356,360 bytes, and 40
     # bytes more where its Amiberry build is named "Amiberry 8.0.0
-    # (facaaeb, Batocera)" (twice).
-    "batocera": (13, 18_854, 1_356_400),
+    # (facaaeb, Batocera)" (twice). The search stopped reading the date
+    # line and "Next steps" on 2026-11-10 (data-pagefind-ignore, about 68
+    # bytes a page): 1,357,282 bytes on the built site of 25057ee3a.
+    "batocera": (13, 18_854, 1_357_282),
     "amberelec": (1, 7_928, 473_388),
     "romm": (2, 9_561, 572_487),
     "retroarch": (14, 21_503, 1_430_802),