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That's right. Really empty pages that serve a 200 are recognized as "soft 404s". The idea is to detect error pages that are erroneously serving 200 instead.
by SquareWheel 7y ago
That's right. Really empty pages that serve a 200 are recognized as "soft 404s". The idea is to detect error pages that are erroneously serving 200 instead.
It's usually pretty good about detecting actual errors, but I've seen a false positive here and there.
- pixl97 7y agoWelcome to the modern internet "Your page didn't contain 5Mb of Javascript, this must be an error as no one could possibly convey useful information to humans with less data" Anti-patterns, anti-patterns everywhere.
- FabHK 7y agoIndeed. Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment comes in at 2MB, obviously that can't contain anything insightful. And then I find myself looking at the website of a restaurant or event space, and need just a phone number or opening hours or so - maybe 10 bytes of actual information - and am buried in mountains of useless blather and "design" and ads and trackers and assorted other random rubbish.
- trickstra 7y agohttp://www.commitstrip.com/en/2019/04/19/its-better-with-javascript/ http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2019/04/19/its-better-with-jav...
- SquareWheel 7y agoContent means on-page content. Scripts and other assets have no effect here.
- acct1771 7y agoIt's almost like they should queue these into a human-reviewed dashboard before, yknow, being wrong. The "world's information store", or whatever their altruist goal was that fooled people, is certainly disorganized and untrustworthy these days.
- SquareWheel 7y agoThey do... they add them to Search Console, the dashboard for webmasters.
- a1369209993 7y agoI think that's why acct1771 used the word "before", rather than "after", there.