Should I optimize the content of a first page of a research statement (risking typography)? The usual entirely-true cliche is that most people on the
  postdoc-hiring committee will not themselves read beyond the first
  page or so of the whole thing, so you should be sure to make your big
  points, of course necessarily in rough terms, just on that first page From Mathoverflow


My ideal first page for a RS, I thought, should not be a dense text (maybe that is secondary, but it is not appealing), and so is to use for the document a 10 pt font size. I might be wrong. Should I really optimize it so that more statements fit there? 

What if my most impressive result would be a graph?
I think the spirit of the statement above is not to overwhelm or overload a hiring committee, because they do not have the time to go through everything thoroughly and are probably reading many research statements. 

You need to make your key points stand out and make it as easy to read as possible. Make it something they want to read if you can. Think of this as more like writing a newspaper article than a science article - the most interesting stuff goes first, follow up with details further into the text if needed.