Does the text to HTML ratio matter?

A good text to code is essential for your website's overall performance. This parameter allows browsers to define whether a target page is “bloated,” meaning containing excessive code. "Bloated" HTML leads to a lower page loading speed, a serious ranking factor for Google.

What is a text to code ratio?

A website's code to text ratio calculates the amount of text on that page to the amount of HTML code required to display it.

What text to HTML ratio is optimal?

The optimal text/HTML ratio should be between 25-70%. This figure refers to the amount of visible text compared to HTML elements, image tags, and non-visible information. This also explains why the sites with more visible text rank higher in search results.

Is the text to code ratio important for SEO performance?

Search engines like Google don't use the text code ratio as a ranking parameter. However, it may show that a webpage contains "bloated" HTML, which, as a result, slows down the page's overall performance, namely the load speed, and increases the response time. So, the text HTML ratio does affect your ranking, yet indirectly.

Code to Text Ratio Checker for Better Page Performance

Try Netpeak Spider to determine the text-HTML ratio on your website and run a detailed SEO check-up simultaneously.

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The Key Features of Code to Text Ratio Checker

How does our code to text ratio checker work? Find out below and try the app to improve your website's performance and load speed.

Text to HTML ratio

Our HTML text code checker calculates the ratio of the text content (i.e., "Content Size") to the entire on-page content (i.e., the "HTML Size" parameter).

Minimal text/HTML ratio notice

Our text HTML ratio checker indicates compliant pages with less than a 10% ratio (by default) of the text to HTML. However, if you need another default value, change it in the "Restrictions" section of the crawling settings.

Define what pages contain a low text-to-HTML ratio with Netpeak Spider.

SEO analysis of any website

The text to code ratio checker provides general insights on low text-HTML ratio and other related metrics. Apart from that, Netpeak Spider helps you run an in-depth SEO analysis of a target website. Find the information on crawling or indexing research, on-page content, tags, and even the data extracted from services like Google Analytics and Search Console.

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Netpeak Spider is the ultimate checker tool that quickly detects issues and calculates any target website's text to code ratio. The app also runs in-depth SEO analysis for your web page and provides insights on titles and headings, broken pages or links, keyword ranking, and many other metrics. Try it via the free trial now and get all your SEO data in one convenient app.

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How Our HTML Text Code Checker Works

1. Launch Netpeak Spider & crawl the domain

Download our text to HTML ratio checker and activate a free trial. To start working with the tool, add the link you need to check. It's possible to add multiple URLs too; either paste a list from the clipboard or upload a separate file with the listed links. Along with the code to text ratio check, Netpeak Spider lets you pick the parameters you want to include in the analysis. The list contains the data on the website's response time, status code, etc.

Use the Netpeak Spider tool to calculate the code to text ratio on any target website.

2. Start scanning and retrieve the analysis results

Once you're done, click "Start" to launch the crawling process. The results show up as a table in a couple of moments. Track every link you've added together with the dedicated data.

Check the crawling results in the form of a convenient table with Netpeak Spider.

3. Export research results

Exporting the research data from our text code ratio checker is pretty straightforward. In the app's top-right corner, find the "Export" button and select "Current table results" to get the full report based on the requested data.

Quickly extract research data from Netpeak Spider for your business needs.

4. Detect the text-to-code ratio issues

Netpeak Spider also reports HTML-related issues, namely the low text to HTML ratio. To access this information, click on "Reports" in the top-right corner of the app, go to "Issues," and select "Min text/HTML ratio" to see the report.

Detect text-to-ratio issues to fix them promptly.

5. Analyze other on-page issues

Besides the text to HTML ratio issues, Netpeak Spider also helps detect other SEO-related problems. For instance, it shows duplicate H1s, broken redirects, missing confirmation links, etc.