Can a one bulky page affects loading of other pages?

[delorean]

Can a one bulky page affects loading of other pages? Thanks for answers.

[aristotle]

Do you mean that a visitor, especially a visitor with a slow connection, starts loading the bulky page, then tries to load some other pages before the bulky page has finished loading? Offhand I don't see any other way this could happen.

Or maybe I've completely misinterpreted the question.

[RedBar]

^^^ as aristotle said 2 or more pages or downloads would have to be done at the same time. For instance the download speed of 3 films at the same time is about 1/3rd (33.333%) the speed of downloading 1 of the films by itself.

Or I've misunderstood too.

[tangor]

What is meant by "bulky"?

I have text pages with 183,000 WORDS of content plus html coding to come to about 1.5mb in size that load over an ordinary dsl line in a second or few.

The users download pipe is one size from their ISP, so downloading several pages/images simultaneously will all subtract from each other, but not the download speed itself.

[RedBar]

simultaneously

That's the word I was looking for :-)

[lucy24]

Can a one bulky page affects loading of other pages?

Do you mean, if there’s a multi-megabyte html file, does that affect the server’s ability to access material elsewhere on the same server? Funny, I've occasionally wondered about the opposite: If a single directory contains thousands upon thousands of files--regardless of size--does it eventually impair the server's ability to find the specific file that has been requested?

Or do you mean, can a browser get stuck loading one monster page and become temporarily unable to load anything else? And if this can happen to a browser, can it happen to the Googlebot, since this is the G### SEO subforum?

Nah. Shouldn't think so, either way.

[tangor]

And when you think about it, most robots aren't looking at ALL the files, only the ones they want ...

[delorean]

Sorry guys. I'm not fluent in English, so some of you might be misled with the question. To be specific, here's an example:
PAGE 1 - 20MB in size
PAGE 2 - 1MB in size
PAGE 3 - 1MB in size

Does having a page with bulky size affect the speed or loading of other pages?

[robzilla]

No, they are independent. The exception is that they do share a single server, presumably, so if page 1 is extremely popular and puts a strain on the server then that might slow down other pages. But that goes for every page and page size is not the best indicator for that, as a 1MB page could require more resources to load or compile than a 20MB page; it all depends on how it's generated, what other resources are called upon, etc.

20MB is a bit too large, though. See if you can slim it down a bit so it loads more quickly for your users and does not waste as much bandwidth. At 20MB you probably have some images that can be optimized.

In terms of SEO, since you posted in the Google SEO section, it probably won't really make a difference either way.

[RedBar]

Bear in mind that if a site is popular that a 20MB page could slow down the site for all users if you have a limited bandwidth and / or server allowance. Your site's overall serving speed will also depend on your server processor, RAM, location etc.

[tangor]

Does having a page with bulky size affect the speed or loading of other pages?

What point are you measuring? The server or the browser? If the speed of the user connection is 25mbps, and the server is capable, probably not.

That said, 25mb for a single file is a bit unusual. What is it? Image? If so, unless there is a reason to maintain that density, I'd resize and optimize down to about 1mb, which is still a VERY LARGE image!

[phranque]

Can a one bulky page affects loading of other pages?

yes, but not necessarily so.

as you can see, there are too many questions that must be answered before you could get a meaningful reply.

[engine]

I would look at it from the point of view of a user, and if a page doesn't load very quickly, will I wait for any other pages which may also be slow to load.

Also, consider your target audience: Google's AMP was devised for slow connections, and we can learn from that in our own web development. Ask the question of your own target audience and would it be detrimental to them.

Remember, if you have many, many users on your site at the same time, your 20Mb page will be an overhead that would slow other pages. Much also depends on your server performance, and its available bandwidth.

As was indicated, generally, i'd want pages to load quickly, and if one page is 20Mb, that is quite a large page. If it's images on that page i'd want to optimise the images.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

- One broken line of code can take down an entire company site, ask Facebook.
- One mistake in DNS resolution can take down entire sections of the internet, ask ICAN.

Fortunately, unless that one bulky page is launching code that is applied sitewide, like some widgets do, then no, a big slow page doesn't affect the load speed of other pages, regardless of size. I agree with everyone above. All traditional SEO suggestions apply on improving page speed.

Caveat - if the big slow bulky page is the site's best page and it gets the most traffic by far then expect to get a lot of negative experience reports and, possibly, warnings in your Search Console. THOSE might cause traffic issues from search for the other pages, never ignore warnings that are applied to your most important pages.