Messy codes in Page source affecting my SEO

[Shervin]

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[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Let's turn this around, it probably won't help it improve. If it will really hurt you, I'm not so sure about that. While looking at the source code it feels like there can be lot of stuff optimised. I see over 10 different CSS files being included which means you're doing a ton of requests to things that can be combined in 1 of them and so with that slowing down your site and pages.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Shervin,

There are a few occasions where bad code will affect your SEO.

• Code / CSS means the site is not formatted for all browsers
• It slows the loading of your page down (your site appears OK)
• Coding means that some content is hidden from view / Google

Outside of this, I haven't ever seen an occasion where poor code has trumped amazing content.

Unless you fall into the categories above, don't sweat it

-Andy

[netzkern_AG]

In the German webmaster hangout, John Müller (from Google) recently said that error-free HTML-Code is not a signal for ranking. He pointed out that, nevertheless, it might make it easier to extract microdata or other data. Summary (in German) here at 17:06: http://seo-portal.de/deutsches-google-webmaster-hangout-transkript-03-05-02016/

While not exactly the same, I'd assume that messy code and code with errors will have similar issues - the extraction can be similarly complicated. In any case it will increase the file size for download and thus potentially lead to slower indexing. And, as has been pointed out, it surely won't make future changes, fixes, etc. easier.

• Nico

[StephanSolomonidis]

Untidy HTML is not a factor in SEO.

However, having lots of Wordpress plugins may slow down the Time To First Byte (TTFB), and you have a lot of render-blocking CSS and Javascript. When I visited your site, I found it to be slow, and that could affect your rankings.

Take a look at your site in Pagespeed Insights and look at what you can fix based on that. Remove any Wordpress plugins that you don't need. But don't evaluate success based on how tidy the page source looks.

[Shervin]

Many thanks guys, these answers clear many things in my head.

Appreciate it