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The robot will very likely hit my frontpage anyways, so I'd rather have them look (and not find) for a meta tag there than to produce an additional 404 error wh
by pilif 14y ago
The robot will very likely hit my frontpage anyways, so I'd rather have them look (and not find) for a meta tag there than to produce an additional 404 error which will, depending on the content of said page, waste a considerable amount of bandwidth.
Besides, my frontpage is either heavily fragment- or just page-cached anyways - especially for anonymous user - so it can be served directly from RAM for all intents and purposes, so a hit to the frontpage is really, really cheap.
- egypturnash 14y ago> an additional 404 error which will, depending on the content of said page, waste a considerable amount of bandwidth. Because your 404 should be one of the heaviest pages on your site, full of graphics and surprises. Why not make a full-featured game specifically for your 404s?
- wedtm 14y agothebest404pageever.com
- icebraining 14y agoCrawlers don't (usually) download graphics, much less from 404 pages. They aren't regular browsers.
- ricardobeat 14y agoCheaper than a hit to a static text file? It's cached in RAM too.