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Optimisation and Accessibility: File Size
The size of your web page actually matters to search engines. Although the file size of a page does not affect its page rank it matters because search engines have a limit to the size of the page that they cache. Search engines cache all pages regardless of size (unless of course you specify that the page not be cached) however those that are over 150K in size are truncated. This means that keywords and phrases that were cut-off wouldn’t be indexed, which is not a good thing for your SEO.
Having your web pages’ contents fully cached is also desirable for your users desirable because you want them to be able to access all of your site’s contents even when your server is down. If your web page has too much content and there are still important information towards the end of the page it might not show in the end. Note though that the cache limit usually apply only top HTML and text files but PDF files are sually cached in its entirety even when above 150K in size.
Aside from ensuring that search engines can fully cache the contents of your page a smaller file size is beneficial to your users because it will result in a faster download speed, which is always a good thing. If you have too much content then do not cram it all into one page. Break it up into sections and alot one page per section. That way it will make your content not only more readable but also limit the file size so that it can be fully cached by search engines.
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