Very low text-to-HTML ratio

InfoDeveloper fixPerformancePer-page checkcontent_low_text_ratio

What this means

On a page over 100KB, readable text is less than 5% of the HTML payload — the rest is markup, inline scripts and serialized state. This is a payload-efficiency signal, not a ranking one.

How to fix it

Move inline state blobs and inline styles into cached external files; a genuinely interactive application page is expected to have a low ratio and needs no change.

Fix effort

This check needs a developer fix: it turns on a routing, hosting or infrastructure decision that no automatic edit can make safely.

Authoritative source

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content

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