SEO optimization rules say that you should keep all relevant content you want spidered under 100KB?
brentonwagner asked:
If this is true.. How do you find out where your 100kb spot is on the website. How do you test the download rate?
If this is true.. How do you find out where your 100kb spot is on the website. How do you test the download rate?
Posted on March 6, 2010 at 9:25 am by raju79 · Permalink
In: Search Engine Optimization · Tagged with: 100kb, Optimization Rules, Relevant Content
In: Search Engine Optimization · Tagged with: 100kb, Optimization Rules, Relevant Content
on March 9, 2010 at 6:55 pm
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Ans: First of all, there is only one rule to SEO, and that is – create your website for human not machine.
I have seen pages more than 500 KB, ranked very well in search engines, and crawled regularly.
This is true that minimizing the website respond time does help in terms of SEO as well as site conversation rate.
But sometimes there are situations that you can not avoid. An eCommerce website has to feature their best products / discount / offers on its very first page. This may cause increase in page size, but it will also help in prevailing website credibility.
For Testing website – Try freely available tools @
on March 10, 2010 at 3:03 pm
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There is no definite or strict rule but its better if you can minimize the size of the page. The advantage will be in faster download speed and fast indexing of web pages.
Check download speed of website :
on March 13, 2010 at 11:00 pm
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SEO is a science of trial and error – no rules to follow, only guidelines. Plus, you can spend your time on good SEO practices an not get bogged down with the finer details such as size of the page etc. Graphics affect page size etc. and if you limit that, you are doing well.
Rather spend your time on a good meta analyzer for relevancy such as:
If you follow the simple rules and keep it relevant, you will be fine. Page size is really a minor factor in determining your success – probably 1%
Good luck.
on March 14, 2010 at 6:27 am
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Point black this statement is not true. therefore it not being true you wont need to test or should I say waste your downloads but if you did want to test your download, you should click on the file and hen click ’save as’ and the file size will popup in the download box.
on March 15, 2010 at 6:17 pm
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I don’t agree with this point. I am successful seo professional. Working in the best seo firm.
on March 17, 2010 at 1:16 am
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I usually use the Firebug extension for Firefox, with the Yslow addon, which can show you how big your pages are, and help to show you bottlenecks in your site speed and gives suggestions on how to make it faster.
The download speed has a lot to do with the speed of the site visitors internet connection, so by optimizing the size of your website and the amount of http requests for images, css files, javascripts etc, your site can perform better. Firebug with Yslow will show you graphs all this information.
I think the 100k idea is mainly for speed, and for human visitors. Google and other engines focus mainly on relevancy. The more relevant the site, the higher it ranks for the search term. I dont think they would NOT rank a relevant website because they think it is slow.
Good luck