Page size - is there such a thing as too small?

[textex]

Is there such thing as too small?

We have minimal images, but decent amounts of text. Our page size is 10K. However, all of the sites out-ranking us are all 25K plus.

[piatkow]

I assume that you are using search arguements that you would expect to favour your site.

The algo uses a variety of factors and before a major restructuring my site was ranking behind sites that appeared to give less relevant results. (eg my page contained the string "Elbonian Widgets" and in a serch on that string came behind sites containing the same two words in different scentences.)

Look carefully at page content, titles and description for starters.

[DrDoc]

There may simply be too little content for the spider to have a truly good meal. Don't expect being treated as an authority with two paragraphs.

[mirrornl]

no minimum size needed imho

i rank sometimes very decent for one pic and like 30 words in the body

[tedster]

If the on-page content is minimal, then by default, the off-page factors (especially anchor text in inbound links) becomes even higher in their influence.

[pshea]

so, ted, are you saying that if I have a page that reads only "I miss John Lennon" and that page had ten inbound links (anchor text John Lennon) . . . that might rank higher than a page with the same inbound links that read, "I miss John Lennon and the music he made."

[tedster]

Something like that. But a better test would not include the search keywords in all the inbound anchor text.

[Asia_Expat]

Depends also on how verbose your code is. My article pages are 700 to 1000 words long in the main body of text, yet the pages are only 10-15k.
Surely the fact that I have extremely clean and light code should not affect me badly?!