SEO consultants believe and Google page analysis report about the file size of web pages and that if they are too large then they are slow and penalized?
How and why this should be penalized and be a problem is beyond our test team when considering that download speeds have increased dramatically and hardly anybody, at least anybody doing serious web research, will still be using a dialup modem (less than 5.6k/sec).
Years ago when everyone including myself were still using dialup Internet I recall a web page that contained a glossary of Internet terms that was 178 Kb, and in those days it did take ages to download.... sometimes 15 minutes. Now I can understand that being a problem back then, but in this day and age where most now have internet speeds available that 100 times faster, why should file size be an issue?
If file size is an issue to a search engine then what are they worried about when they don't actually store the whole web page?
Most search engines only store enough information from a web page to provide relevance testing against its keywords. So an extra large web page may pose a problem, however the amount of data stored is more likely to be calculated as a set amount of data rather than a percentage of the total page, so why worry?
Our test team provided an insight into how Google Chrome can provide faster downloads from a cache service, and perhaps this is where web pages with large amounts of text can be an issue... it's not to do with normal search spidering but rather that Google, like everyone who already has established a market, is now trying to screw as much profit from their revenue as possible but cutting costs.
So is this true? Does Google penalize us for larger web pages simply because it is too greedy?
