WPCode Content Ratio
This plugin extracts the text of all your pages and posts from HTML code and calculates the content ratio based on this information.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 1
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 4 May 2014
- Added
- Nov 2012
- Requires WP
- 3.1
- Tested up to
- WP 3.9.40
- Downloads
- 4,917
Our analysis
AI-assistedWPCode Content Ratio is a WordPress plugin that calculates the percentage of text in relation to HTML code on your web pages. It extracts text from your pages and posts to provide insights into the code to text ratio, which can influence search engine rankings. This tool is aimed at users looking to optimise their content for better search visibility.
Best for: Website owners and content creators focused on SEO and content optimisation.
What it does well
- ✓Calculates code to text ratio for web pages
- ✓Helps identify areas for content improvement
- ✓Aids in on-site SEO optimisation
Where it falls short
- •Limited feature set with no additional tools
- •Last updated in May 2014, may not support newer WordPress versions
Verdict
WPCode Content Ratio provides a straightforward way to assess the text-to-code ratio on your site, but its dated updates may limit its effectiveness with newer WordPress versions.
From the developer
Jonatan Jumbert's own description of WPCode Content Ratio, lightly tidied.
The Code to Text Ratio represents the percentage of actual text in a web page. This plugin extracts the text of all your pages and posts from HTML code and calculates the content ratio based on this information.
Why is it important?
The code to text ratio of a page is used by search engines and spiders to calculate the relevancy of a web page. A higher code to text ratio gives you a better chance of getting a good page ranking for your page.
Not all search engines are using the code to text ratio in their index algorithm, but most of them do. So having a higher code to text ratio than your competitors gives you a good start for on-site optimization.
% Ratios and meanings:
- 0% – 10%: Consider adding more content or revamping your code.
- 10% – 25%: Content is moderate, but always room to improve.
- 25% – 70%: Generally good, but don’t over do it.
- 70% – 100%: If you’ve got higher than about 70% or so then you’ve got a lot of text and not a lot of code, which might sound like a good thing, but could represent spam too.
Ways to lower the amount of code on a web page
- Use CSS layouts instead of table-based layouts.
- Put CSS and Javascript into external files.
- Take out tags that have no purpose.
- Use valid code. After all, a page scoring 25% which works everywhere is usually better than one which scores 50% but fails in most browsers.
- Write more text on your posts.