How important is my code to text ratio on web pages?

[absoauto]

I've been getting mixed reviews on this and I'm trying to figure out whether this is something I should be concerned with. We have a higher than recommended amount of code, relative to "content" but not by a crazy amount.

Thanks!

[glennmather]

Hi,

I am also very confused by the conflicting information out there.

On one hand the general advice appears to be get your text to code ratio over 25%,

but on the other hand Moz now includes as one of its "Spam Score"  factors and I quote "**Site Mark-up is Abnormally Small - **There's a high ratio of visible text compared to HTML, JavaScript, etc."

So which is right for the best SERPS SEO????

Help,

Glenn

[Alick300]

Hi,

I would like to share one article on this. I hope that helps you.

http://blog.woorank.com/2013/03/are-text-to-html-ratios-important/

Thanks

[RyanPurkey]

There's a discussion on cache expiration here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6486805/html-cache-control-max-age, but you'll want someone knowledgeable in these recommendations making changes.

[absoauto]

Awesome, thanks Ryan. How would I add "private, max-age=600" as code? Is there I can line I can put in the tags to show every image on that page should have that cache rule?

[RyanPurkey]

The biggest issue is with how this affects your load speed. Plug in your site here to see: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

Sites in the red often have trouble ranking well.