Tiny Page Sizes

do they make a big difference?

[mortalfrog]

I've noticed that the top website for one of my key-phrases has three pages listed before the next website for that key-phrase. All three of those pages are below 5 kilobytes. The PR of those pages is really quite low - 3 and 4 - a couple points below that of pages that seem just as relevant but are displaced by the tiny pages in the search.

The only thing other than page size that seems to differentiate these pages is their listing in DMOZ, where they are ranked first for that key-phrase and none of the other pages that show up in the google search are visible on the first page of DMOZ results - is DMOZ that influential, or is it the small page size that pushes this site above the rest?

[luma]

I am pretty sure there's a document on webmasterworld or searchengineworld that lists the percentage of web pages haven n bytes. Can't find it right now.

Anyway, you might wanna have a look at WebPage Size and Speed [searchengineworld.com] and use the Webpage Size Checker [searchengineworld.com].

[Nick_W]

I've had quite a bit of success with less than 5k pages. It also helps if you use css and absolute postioning to make the content appear at the top of a document.

I don't think there are any hard facts on this but FWIW I think it counts quite a bit...

Nick