Does Page Size Matter for BETTER Rankings?

[jb123]

Does the page size matter? Is that the length of the page of the KB of the page or both? If it is the KB size of the page how do you reduce the size without deleting things?

[mack]

The best way to think about this is to conceder keyword density. Try and use the page to highlight your keywords. The more words the lower the density of your targeted keywords, whereas if you keep it short and simple your keywords will make up a much higher percentage of the total page and this could help you rank better. It is not always this simple but I always like to think along the lines of, don’t make it any bigger than you have to and try and keep it targeted.

[brotherhood of LAN]

Brett wrote something about this a few years back....it is somewhere on Search Engine World if anyone knows the exact URL, please post it :)

Is that the length of the page of the KB of the page or both

Google measures the length of your page in kilobytes as evident on a SERP.

If it is the KB size of the page how do you reduce the size without deleting things?

Remove spaces between tags, tabs, line breaks.....when I was playing around with a search spider/indexer, most pages after removing indentation and new lines were 20% smaller in file size.

Also externally call Javascript or CSS files, so you use 1 line of reference code instead of X amount of lines in your javascript or CSS.