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[Trekkin]

I'm attempting to make the most ridiculously efficient fort I've ever made, and before i can begin in earnest i need to determine how much volume i actually want to allocate. Thus i must ask how much stockpile space everyone normally puts in their fort total, and subsequently how it's allocated.

[Lollikus]

Normally I allocate an area of 11x11 tiles for animals, forniture, finished goods, wood and bars/blocks, and a smaller 11x5 for cloth, leather and gems; and then e leave an empty area for future needs.
But my forts are not so big (max. 120 pop.), probably for bigger forts you'll need more space.

[anotherthing]

I have a whole level in my 4x4 embark fortress devoted to metal. I have another floor devoted to stone. I burn through wood too fast to have much space allocated for it. I have multiple gem stockpiles on various other levels.

[Psieye]

Efficient in which direction? For Dwarves or for FPS?

[cyks]

This is rather trivial because an efficient fort will need the total volume of any stockpile type to be divided.  For example, my farmer's workshop has a portion of my food stockpile: rope reeds and pig tails.  The plants are processed and moved 4 tiles over to the neighboring stockpile and workshop (thread stockpile and loom).  This leaves me with extra volume in terms of barrels and bins, but jobs are efficiently streamlined with custom stocks.

[Trekkin]

Efficient for dwarves; FPS hasn't been much of a problem for me so far.

And yes, I know it has to be partitioned by most frequent job sequence for maximum efficiency, but at present this is more of an architectural than an administrative exercise; I'm just trying to cram everything into the smallest (with stairways positioned so that any given pathway reasonably resembles a straight line between the two points) possible cube/sphere, so i needed an idea of how much space had to be inside.

[kaijyuu]

Personally I don't make stockpiles for metal bars since my smelters are right next to my metalsmith shops and I haven't seen any ill effects of leaving stuff in them.

I guess it depends on how many haulers you have vs crafters. So long as the stockpile next to your shop(s) never runs out, it doesn't matter how big they are. If you have 50 idlers a small stockpile for each profession will probably be refilled faster than stuff is taken out.

EDIT: Another thing to consider is if your haulers will be drafted into the military or be otherwise distracted. If you want your crafters to keep going at max efficiency through sieges or whatever, large stockpiles will give them buffer zone before having to jog off to who knows where to grab their materials.