Is there such thing as a good text/code ratio? Can it effect SERPs?

[ARMofficial]

As it says on the tin;

Is there such thing as a good text/code ratio? And can it effect SERPs?

I'm currently looking at a 20% ratio whereas some competitors are closer to 40%+.

Best regards,
Sam.

[JamesNorquay]

I would not worry too much about text to code ratio as an exact number.

Things I would more so worry about are the following:

1. Do you have more then 200 words of text per page.

2. Do you have low amount of code errors on page.

3. Do you have alot of code space on the page (I have see this numerous times.

4. Make sure you have the key text elements near the top of the page when Google crawls the content first, also your key on page elements.

[AlanMosley]

There is no set ration but clean code is important, large amount sof script, css,  json and viewstate can affect your SEO, usly messy code has errors, many of todays CMS packages create messy code with errors. Seach engines have to try to work out what is visisble to the users, this is no easy feat when you have mess code with errors.

Herre a few errors that Bing picks up, no dount Googes does also

http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-a-large-number-of-cascading-style-sheet-(css)-definitions

http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-a-large-amount-of-script-code

[ARMofficial]

Thank you James and Alan, for the quick response.