Site views messy in a text browser, but can see all text, is that a problem?

[nicole.healthline]

In Google's webmaster guidelines, they mention to view your site in a text browser to ensure all text is visible. All of our text is visible, but is very messy and is all jumbled on the page. I've noticed most sites text browser layout is clean. H

How important is it to SEO that the site views cleanly in a text browser? Does anyone know of any feedback from Google engineers about this point?

[Desiree-CP]

No, that is not a problem and not very important for SEO that you have "clean" looking text in a text browser.

A few months ago I thought I had to optimize (and by optimize I mean make it look pretty) for a text only browser as well.  However, after conducting some competitive research I found that some of our top competitors (ranked #1-5) were in far worse condition from a text only browser stand point.

In a nut shell, as long as you have the text visible then you are good to go.

TIP: To see how Google views your website type the following in the search bar~> cache:www.yourwebsite.com then click on "text-only version"