What is the best amount of content to have per page?

I am publishing large documents that contain a lot of text, and I am dividing these into separate pages on a website.

Can anyone suggest how large I should make each page?

5 kb? 10 kb? 50 kb?

Smaller page sizes will result in many more pages. I am wondering what is optimal. Any expert advice?

Thanks

 

I dont know in size. But I have heard that a minimum of 300 words is a good content page.

 

"With the exception of a select few documents that search engines consider to be of exceptional importance, web pages greater than 150K in size are typically not fully cached. This is done to reduce index size, bandwidth, and load on the servers, and is important to anyone building pages with exceptionally large amounts of content. If it's important that every word and phrase be spidered and indexed, keeping file size under 150K is highly recommended. As with any online endeavor, smaller file size also means faster download speed for users - a worthy metric in its own right."

Care of http://www.seomoz.org/article/beginners-1-page

I highly recommend reading the entire thing for a good foundation in SEO

 

Thanks for the replies.

 

Hey there,

Text really does not cause the page size to increase that drastically. However, graphics will.

I would not worry too much about page size. Most people are getting fast connections.

Having said that, I would still make your pages presentable. If the content is too long, I would break it into several pages. People do not like to scroll forever.

Sincerely,
Travis Walters

 

You can't go by KB, your header image might be that size. For the text shoot for around 500 words.

Split your article in to several "chapters" of 500 words, and target each page's Title and Description with keywords/phrases related to each page. Also link them up with good anchor text and not just "next page".

 

I would suggest 5 kb.

 

No more than 6000 words or no more than 4000 characters on page!
Cheers!

 

KISS it. Nothing too long, and nothing which requires people on dialup to struggle for the page to load and endlessly scroll to find the paragraph that they want.

 

Keep in mind that users spend mere seconds on web pages by scanning rather than reading. Cut your text in half, create a blurb that summarizes the content

 

I agree with colly2006.... as a reader.. some visitors may have not fun to read all your text... make as detailed as much as possible... emphasizes the important words...balance the images and the text in your pages and make it not too crowded...

 

I have heard that having 1000+ words of quality content on your home page is much better than 300-400 words. Google will give it more weight.

 

ohh.. yes.. I agreed to you.. thanks

 

Very hard to say really - I guess the best way to look at it would be from a users point of view rather than a search engine / machines point of view. Is there too little content to keep the user interested on that page or is there just far too much and it goes on far too long? That's what I would go with.

 

The amount of content is a reasonable amount of content. You shouldn't follow any guidelines except for what is needed to be written on the page. No more or less than what you think.

 

at least 300-500 words per page

 

I think 400-500 words is optimal. This provides enough length to repeat each keyword the 3 to 4 times needed to get some SEO juice.

Most clients asking for my content services order copy with 400 - 500 words per page.

 

Internet Marketer are all notorious scanner 300 words are good

 

FWIW, on the whole, my shorter pages tend to get more traffic than the long ones.

 

What if below 300 words?
I think it's right, my <300 content rarely affect SE traffic