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Acceptable Ratio

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fashezee

9:55 pm on Apr 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

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What is an acceptable ratio of Text to HTML?

grahamstewart

10:37 pm on Apr 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I don't think there is a magic number, but the higher the better. Its pretty easy to get most pages over 25%.
Making your css and javascripts external will help a lot.

Also try writing validating html using a strict doctype (i.e. HTML4 Strict or XHTML1.0 Strict) - that will soon trim the fat!