How big can a web page be - length of text?

[Mr Bo Jangles]

Hi all,
It suits me on a new site to have one particular page (of FAQs) large - i.e. long with text. I would like to put all the FAQs on this single page - there will be a summary listing of them at the top of the page then links within the page to the items - I'm sure you've all seen the type of thing. But I don't really want to break it over pages - so technically, will any browsers have a problem with a really long page? How long?

thanks,

Mr Bo

[collymellon]

I'm sure you will run out of text before a broswer has difficulty loading the page. In theory your page can be as long as you like but be prepared for slow loading speeds..

[peewhy]

I've done a similar thing but the scroll down was getting too much so I split it into four pages and achieved far better serps.

[jbinbpt]

I have heard it suggested that longer pages do not get a full indexing. There could be a cut off point that you might want to consider as peewhy suggested. Perhaps someone knows more about this.

jb

[Robin_reala]

Browsers generally have incremental loading - they'll render pieces of pages as they receive them rather than rendering them all at the same time. You shouldn't have any problems but personally I'd probably split it up to increase the usability.

[peewhy]

Splitting the page worked wonders for me. You could do a test, keep the long page and split a copy.