: Trying to improve code-text ratio without a catch-22 My website has several subdomains with it that represent each major section of the website and I have that to allow search engines to understand

@Si4351233

The text to code radio claim is one of the bigger myths out there on search engine optimization. What actually matters is the page load time not the ratio of text to code. If you have a lot of code compared to the text in your site this still isn't inherently a problem until the amount of code you have is causing significant load time issues.

Google publishes a tool called Page Speed Insights which can be found at developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ which is designed to identify issues with your page speed and what is causing the issues and help provide advice on how to correct the page speed issues. As a general rule of thumb pages with a speed insight speed profile in yellow or red will have difficulty ranking as highly as sites with a green speed profile but this is only a general rule of thumb and not a hard and fast rule. As an example with two websites I have worked on in the past for two government departments in two separate states which do the same thing (emergency services websites), one site which has a better insight score actually has a lower SERP rank than the other. The good site actually has a really poor (in the red) insight score but ranks better based on content, whereas the other site (which ranks highly in the green) with an insight score, actually has a much lower SERP rank.

What this demonstrates is that while page speed is important (as Google has said before) for your SERP ranking, the content of your page is more important than page speed.

Focusing specifically on your question there is no real reason to do any of the options you have questioned about, instead run your site through the PageSpeed Insights's tool and it will give you ideas on what Google thinks of your page speed and where it suggests improvements. Generally instead of messing around with URL's which don't really affect the code to text ratio in any meaningful way regardless, there will be other more important improvements to make such as shifting rendering-blocking javascript and CSS in above the fold content and shifting it to the bottom of the page where possible, as well as leveraging browser cache, optimising images, minifying CSS, javascript, and HTML, and reducing server response time.

As a side note the insights tool also has a built in tool to optimise your static content and let you download the optimised content to upload to your site.

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