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Page To Text Ratio for web site design improvement
What is Page To Text Ratio?
Page to Text Ratio is the description
result of how many words and characters are listed on your page
compared to the entire coding required behind the scenes to make the
page show on the web. The more text visible to the engines the
better. Why, because all large search engines require a text based
reading / spidering to list the site within the results pages.
Tips: Find your Page to Text Ratio.
What is PTTR?
PTTR is an abbreviation of Page To Text Ratio, this equation helps
web designers list pages or articles that are optimized across a
site or category. The higher your Page to Text Ratio, the better
your search engine can return search string results.
If your editor program can not show you the Page to Text Ratio, do
this.
Use your web editor to:
Firstly,
In the design mode, Select All > Copy > Open Microsoft Word
or similar > Paste into a document > Use the Word Count Tool > Write
down the quantity of a) characters, b) words on a piece of paper.
Then,
Go back to your web page and change to code view. This will
show all the scripting. Select All > Copy > Paste in Microsoft Word
or similar > Use the Word Count Tool > Write down the quantity of a)
characters, b) words.
Step 3, Then use a calculator to divide the largest number by the
smallest number. This will give you a result such as 0.54. This
means your Web Page To Text Ratio is 54%. The higher the better.
Notes: All engines need text to spider your pages. Highly
intensive scripted pages are less likely to achieve initial page
rank and may need to be promoted with other means (discussed later).
You do not need to have all pages with loads of text to achieve a
higher Page to Text Ratio. If you page requires few words, but lots
of images, rollovers etc. You can do a few more things to lower the
coding content and increase the visible text content.
Try this.
Add an external style sheet with classes and
properties. Add an external script style sheet. If you place JavaScript outside
the page.
Use less coding for your imagery (remove dynamic links and make them
static e.g. ../pics/mypicture.jpg and not http:www.mydomainname.com/pics/mypicture.jpg
See also
Java Script Menus
Less is better for Coded Pages
If your page is very intensively coded, try to reduce the
unwarranted tags, remove white space and duplicate tags. Place
containers inside DIVs and Use an external style sheet.
Why is Page To Text Ratio important? Words are searchable, coding is
not.
The lesser unseen coding the better for your page. This will
speed up your pages and increase your sites exposure across the web.
Summary
This Page:
General statistics about "page-to-text-ratio.html"
Total web page size: 5,947 bytes
Visible text size: 3,278 bytes
Total HTML size: 2,669 bytes
Visible text to web page size ratio: 55.12% (the more the better)
Number of images: 2
Every page should have a minimum of 15% PTT. Any less and you should
redesign your web pages. Do it for every page in your site, and
total the results. This will give you great insight into how the
entire site is listed.
How
much text is needed for a spider to index your page higher?