docs(plotly): optimize page for Plotly Python SEO terms

[Alek99]

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Type of change

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Description

The Plotly docs page (docs/library/graphing/other-charts/plotly/) currently ranks for essentially nothing — Ahrefs shows a single keyword ("reflex charts", volume 10). This reframes it as the canonical "interactive Plotly charts in Python" example hub to capture winnable long-tail terms, rather than chasing the branded head term "plotly python" (whose SERP is locked up by plotly.com's own docs + GitHub).

On-page SEO changes to docs/library/graphing/other-charts/plotly.md:

• Added a frontmatter description — the page previously had none and fell back to generic boilerplate for its meta description.
• Rewrote the H1 to Plotly in Python: Interactive Charts with Reflex, so the auto-generated <title> (built in docpage.py) carries "Python" and intent terms instead of the bare Plotly · Other Charts · Reflex Docs.
• Added a keyword-rich intro paragraph covering Plotly / Python / interactive / web app.
• Renamed sections to match chart-type queries (Line Chart, 3D Surface Plot) and added Scatter Plot and Histogram example sections targeting low-difficulty terms (KD 1–3).

Target keywords (from Ahrefs): python interactive charts (KD 14, the term Reflex can realistically win), plus the chart-type long tail — plotly line chart (KD 1), plotly scatter plot python (KD 2), plotly 3d surface plot (KD 3), plotly histogram python.

Notes for reviewers

• The two new demo blocks (Scatter Plot, Histogram) use canonical Plotly Express APIs (px.data.iris(), px.data.tips(), px.scatter, px.histogram) mirroring the existing gapminder examples. I was unable to execute them in the CI-less authoring environment, so please confirm they render with a local docs run before merge.
• Docs-only change: no framework code, components, or .pyi stubs affected.

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Greptile Summary

This PR is a docs-only SEO optimization of the Plotly charting page. It adds a frontmatter description, rewrites the H1 and intro paragraph with keyword-rich language targeting long-tail Plotly/Python search terms, renames two existing sections, and adds Scatter Plot and Histogram demo blocks using canonical plotly.express APIs.

• The new scatter_plot and histogram demo code blocks define df and fig at module scope (outside the component function), consistent with the pattern used by every other static example on the page.
• Section renames (Basic Example → Line Chart, 3D graphing example → 3D Surface Plot) and the new intro paragraph are straightforward copy changes with no code impact.
• The PR author notes these two new demo blocks were not locally executed before submission; reviewers should confirm rendering with a local docs run.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge after a local docs render verification of the two new demo blocks.

The change touches a single Markdown file with no framework code, component definitions, or .pyi stubs. The two new demo code blocks use well-established plotly.express built-in datasets (px.data.iris(), px.data.tips()) and follow the exact same module-scope variable pattern already used by every other static example on the page. The only open item — confirmed by the author — is that the new blocks were not executed locally before submission, so a quick local docs run to verify rendering is the one remaining step before merge.

No files require special attention; the author recommends a local docs run to verify the two new demo blocks render correctly.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
docs/library/graphing/other-charts/plotly.md	Docs-only SEO rewrite: adds frontmatter description, rewrites H1, expands intro, renames sections, and adds Scatter Plot and Histogram demo blocks using standard plotly.express APIs at module scope.

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Merging this PR will not alter performance

✅ 26 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 8 skipped benchmarks¹

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Footnotes

1. 8 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩

[Alek99]

Closing in favor of #6703, which supersedes this PR. #6703 is the broader graphing-docs SEO pass and now includes everything unique from here — I folded in this PR's stronger H1 (Plotly in Python: Interactive Charts with Reflex) and richer intro, on top of the full Plotly Express example gallery (bar, scatter, pie, heatmap, histogram, box plot) and the meta-description infrastructure that actually wires a page-specific <meta description> through (which this PR's description: frontmatter needs to take effect).

Nothing is lost by closing here. 🙏

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