How important is my code to text ratio on web pages?
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I've been getting mixed reviews on this and I'm trying to figure out whether this is something I should be concerned with. We have a higher than recommended amount of code, relative to "content" but not by a crazy amount.
Thanks!
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Hi,
I am also very confused by the conflicting information out there.
On one hand the general advice appears to be get your text to code ratio over 25%,
but on the other hand Moz now includes as one of its "Spam Score" factors and I quote "**Site Mark-up is Abnormally Small - **There's a high ratio of visible text compared to HTML, JavaScript, etc."
So which is right for the best SERPS SEO????
Help,
Glenn
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Hi,
I would like to share one article on this. I hope that helps you.
http://blog.woorank.com/2013/03/are-text-to-html-ratios-important/
Thanks
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There's a discussion on cache expiration here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6486805/html-cache-control-max-age, but you'll want someone knowledgeable in these recommendations making changes.
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Awesome, thanks Ryan. How would I add "private, max-age=600" as code? Is there I can line I can put in the tags to show every image on that page should have that cache rule?
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The biggest issue is with how this affects your load speed. Plug in your site here to see: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Sites in the red often have trouble ranking well.
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