Text to code ratio<10% warning from website audit by SiteChecker.Pro - how important is it?
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Hi to everyone,
I used Sitechecker.Pro for a website audit of a client website https://bizpages.org and there was this warning (not an error!):
TEXT TO CODE RATIO<10%
https://sitechecker.pro/app/main/project/1839063/audit/summary
How important is this to achieve good ranking? What are good ratios? I undestand that more text needs to be added to improve it?
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Hi!
This is a metric I would care less about, it's not something that is good or bad. It's just something that could happen. For example, look at this Q&A page, I bet that 98% of the HTML on this page is templated and only the questions and answers are obviously different. Is that bad? No, it's certainly not. There are likely many other factors in SEO to worry about more.
Use the overall rule that you always want to add more content to your pages, but in itself, I wouldn't worry about code <> text ratio as something to improve.
Martijn.
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