For an exact quantitative description of spectral properties of synchrotron
radiation (SR), the concept of effective width of the spectrum is introduced.
In the most interesting case, which corresponds to the ultrarelativistic limit
of SR, the effective width of the spectrum is calculated for the polarization
components, and new physically important quantitative information on the
structure of spectral distributions is obtained. For the first time, the
spectral distribution for the circular polarization component of the SR for the
upper half-space is obtained within classical theory
