internetheaven - 8:42 am on May 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

2 questions that came up in this week's cold calling seo sales rep rants:

1) Google originally stated a 100K page size limit "recommendation". Does that exist any more?

2) Does that only include code, or images?

One guy was adamant that my 69KB animated gif would cause me to be viewed as slower by Google and therefore it would rank me lower.

MYSITE:

Total WebPage Size - 17594 (bytes)
Visible Text Size - 6376 (bytes)
Size of HTML Tags - 11218 (bytes)
Text to HTML Ratio - 36.73%
Number of Images - 19
Largest Image Size - 71372 (bytes)
Size of All Images - 128690 (bytes)

Grand Total: 146284 (bytes)


I use page speed and have optimized it as much as possible. Then of course, if you include external sources such as social media displays, javascript includes and share buttons:

Total Size: 425874 bytes