In Bing's Webmaster Tools, they have a warning if your html is over 125KB.
It states:
Evaluated size of HTML is estimated to be over 125 KB and risks not being fully cached.
Recommended action
Ensure that the page source does not contain large amounts of CSS or code at the top of the page. Consider moving code and styles into separate files.
Search engines may not fully acquire the content on a page if the page is contains a lot of code. Extraneous code can push the content down in the page source making it harder for a search engine crawler to get to. A soft limit of 125 KB is used for guidance to ensure all content & links are available in the page source to be cached by the crawler. This basically means if the page size is too big, a search engine may not be able to get all of the content or may end up not fully caching it.
- Does anyone know what type of caching this is referring to?
- Is it just referring to the cached copy of the page which users can view?
I tried asking the Bing Webmaster Tools support contact for details, but they seem to not know much about it.
I asked them:
- Could you clarify what it's referring to regarding "not fully caching"?
- Does this mean that content after 125KB will not be indexed?
- Does "soft limit" mean that that's not the actual limit?
- If so, how much higher is the actual limit?
In their first response to my questions, they responded with a vague:
I would like to inform you that the recommendation is correct. Please reduce the size of the overall HTML page.
When I repeated the same questions to them, they responded with:
Firstly Caching is a way of making a web page appear faster. That is the short way to explain it, but of course there is a whole process behind data caching techniques.
Secondly No it doesn't mean content after 125KB will not be indexed.
125 KB is the actual higher limit. For more info on this please reach out to your SEO specialist for better understanding.
This second vague response seems to imply that it doesn't affect indexing, and might be referring to the cached webpage feature. Does this sound correct?