A 2000 word article, 23.5 KB html file

Can I leave it as one page, or should I split it up?

[Perfection]

I just wrote an article that is about 2000 words long. The .html file is 23.5 KB big. Is this too big to put up as is?

As far as reading the article goes, I personally like how it looks/reads on one page. However, if this is too big for Google's liking, I may rethink that and break it up into 2 pages. What do you guys think?

[activeco]

According to some old rules of Google, up to 101Kb was fine.
Not sure if they changed it in the recent past.

[Stefan]

Not a problem. I regularly put up pages that are over 70k in the htm, with very minimal code, mostly text (8000+ words), and G loves them. These are detailed articles, of course, not a dog's breakfast of kw's. Your article is too, by the sounds of it, so keep it as it us. I know for myself, as a user, I'd much rather use the scroll on the mouse than click through pages.

[Swanson]

Do not break that article up!

At the moment Google has a problem with content that does not dominate the web page.

At the size you mention that should be just good enough to judge the page as unique if you factor in the html template!

I have found that Google is now indexing up to 300k of content on pages, the 101k limit was removed a long time ago - maybe one of the reasons they are in trouble now.

[Borek]

According to my tests optimal page size is about 1400 words. Or at least it was till March, latest developments can trash this knowledge.