Wow….how did I miss this thread?
|Code used to hurt because the moew you had the slower your site loaded. These days there are more high speed user than dial-up, but when this was a concern it was just the oposite.
The other myth is that you need to put your optimised code closer the the beginning of your page source.
You don’t need to worry about either of these points.
High speed connection are more common, and all the primary SE’s have the bandwidth to crawl deeper and longer through huge sites daily.
Hate to be redundant, but everyone that has said to concentrate on anything else, is right.
On a side note I would run Xenu through your site to be sure you don’t have any bad navigation, loops or similar content/titles.