{"id":24660,"date":"2012-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/crawl-errors-the-next-generation\/"},"modified":"2012-03-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T00:00:00","slug":"crawl-errors-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/crawl-errors-the-next-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Crawl Errors: The Next Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Monday, March 12, 2012<\/p>\n<p>\n  Crawl errors is one of the most popular features in Webmaster Tools, and today we&#8217;re rolling out<br \/>\n  some very significant enhancements that will make it even more useful.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  We now detect and report many new types of errors. To help make sense of the new data, we&#8217;ve split<br \/>\n  the errors into two parts: <em>site errors<\/em> and <em>URL errors<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"site-errors\" tabindex=\"-1\">Site Errors<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Site errors are errors that aren&#8217;t specific to a particular URL\u2014they affect your entire site.<br \/>\n  These include DNS resolution failures, connectivity issues with your web server, and problems<br \/>\n  fetching your robots.txt file. We used to report these errors by URL, but that didn&#8217;t make a lot<br \/>\n  of sense because they aren&#8217;t specific to individual URLs\u2014in fact, they prevent Googlebot from even<br \/>\n  requesting a URL! Instead, we now keep track of the failure rates for each type of site-wide<br \/>\n  error. We&#8217;ll also try to send you alerts when these errors become frequent enough that they<br \/>\n  warrant attention.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"attempt-center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-74a459b24a8e.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\n       alt=\"View of site errors rate and counts over time in Webmaster Tools\" class=\"screenshot\"><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\n  Furthermore, if you don&#8217;t have (and haven&#8217;t recently had) any problems in these areas, as is the<br \/>\n  case for many sites, we won&#8217;t bother you with this section. Instead, we&#8217;ll just show you some<br \/>\n  friendly check marks to let you know everything is hunky-dory.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"attempt-center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-2373ce99bd00.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\n       alt=\"Site errors view in Webmaster Tools showing no errors\" class=\"screenshot\"><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"url-errors\" tabindex=\"-1\">URL errors<\/h2>\n<p>\n  URL errors are errors that are specific to a particular page. This means that when Googlebot tried<br \/>\n  to crawl the URL, it was able to resolve your DNS, connect to your server, fetch and read your<br \/>\n  robots.txt file, and then request this URL, but something went wrong after that. We break the URL<br \/>\n  errors down into various categories based on what caused the error. If your site serves up Google<br \/>\n  News or mobile (CHTML\/XHTML) data, we&#8217;ll show separate categories for those errors.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"attempt-center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-d763fdfbbcc1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\n       alt=\"URL errors view in Webmaster Tools categorized by type with full current and historical counts\" class=\"screenshot\"><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"less-is-more\" tabindex=\"-1\">Less is more<\/h2>\n<p>\n  We used to show you at most 100,000 errors of each type. Trying to consume all this information<br \/>\n  was like drinking from a firehose, and you had no way of knowing which of those errors were<br \/>\n  important (your home page is down) or less important (someone&#8217;s personal site made a typo in a link<br \/>\n  to your site). There was no realistic way to view all 100,000 errors\u2014no way to sort, search, or<br \/>\n  mark your progress. In the new version of this feature, we&#8217;ve focused on trying to give you only<br \/>\n  the most important errors up front. For each category, we&#8217;ll give you what we think are the 1000<br \/>\n  most important and actionable errors. You can sort and filter these top 1000 errors, let us know<br \/>\n  when you think you&#8217;ve fixed them, and view details about them.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"attempt-center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-413bb46c6394.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\n       alt=\"Sorting functionality in the crawl errors view of Webmaster Tools\" class=\"screenshot\"><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\n  Some sites have more than 1000 errors of a given type, so you&#8217;ll still be able to see the total<br \/>\n  number of errors you have of each type, as well as a graph showing historical data going back 90<br \/>\n  days. For those who worry that 1000 error details plus a total aggregate count will not be enough,<br \/>\n  we&#8217;re considering adding programmatic access (an API) to allow you to download every last error<br \/>\n  you have, so please give us feedback if you need more.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  We&#8217;ve also removed the list of pages blocked by robots.txt, because while these can sometimes be<br \/>\n  useful for diagnosing a problem with your robots.txt file, they are frequently pages you<br \/>\n  <em>intentionally<\/em> blocked. We really wanted to focus on errors, so look for information about<br \/>\n  roboted URLs to show up soon in the &#8220;Crawler access&#8221; feature under &#8220;Site configuration&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"dive-into-the-details\" tabindex=\"-1\">Dive into the details<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Clicking on an individual error URL from the main list brings up a detail pane with additional<br \/>\n  information, including when we last tried to crawl the URL, when we first noticed a problem, and a<br \/>\n  brief explanation of the error.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"attempt-center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-0095f5b83189.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\n       alt=\"Detail view of a URL level error\" class=\"screenshot\"><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\n  From the details pane you can click on the link for the URL that caused the error to see for<br \/>\n  yourself what happens when you try to visit it. You can also mark the error as &#8220;fixed&#8221; (more on<br \/>\n  that later!), view help content for the error type, list Sitemaps that contain the URL, see other<br \/>\n  pages that link to this URL, and even have Googlebot fetch the URL right now, either for more<br \/>\n  information or to double-check that your fix worked.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"attempt-center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-06832e69dd2e.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\n       alt=\"Panel in the crawl errors view in Webmaster Tols showing which pages link to a page with error\" class=\"screenshot\"><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"take-action\" tabindex=\"-1\">Take action!<\/h2>\n<p>\n  One thing we&#8217;re really excited about in this new version of the Crawl errors feature is that you<br \/>\n  can really focus on fixing what&#8217;s most important first. We&#8217;ve ranked the errors so that those at<br \/>\n  the top of the priority list will be ones where there&#8217;s something you can do, whether that&#8217;s<br \/>\n  fixing broken links on your own site, fixing bugs in your server software, updating your sitemaps<br \/>\n  to prune dead URLs, or adding a <code>301<\/code> redirect to get users to the &#8220;real&#8221; page. We determine this<br \/>\n  based on a multitude of factors, including whether or not you included the URL in a Sitemap, how<br \/>\n  many places it&#8217;s linked from (and if any of those are also on your site), and whether the URL has<br \/>\n  gotten any traffic recently from search.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Once you think you&#8217;ve fixed the issue (you can test your fix by fetching the URL as Googlebot),<br \/>\n  you can let us know by marking the error as &#8220;fixed&#8221; if you are a<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/safely-share-access-to-your-site-in-webmaster-tools\/\">user with full access permissions<\/a>.<br \/>\n  This will remove the error from your list. In the future, the errors you&#8217;ve marked as fixed won&#8217;t<br \/>\n  be included in the top errors list, unless we&#8217;ve encountered the same error when trying to<br \/>\n  re-crawl a URL.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"attempt-center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-1da3214ed60e.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\n       alt=\"Panel that allows the user to mark errors fixed in Webmaster Tools\" class=\"screenshot\"><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\n  We&#8217;ve put a lot of work into the new Crawl errors feature, so we hope that it will be very useful<br \/>\n  to you. Let us know what you think and if you have any suggestions, please visit our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/a\/googleproductforums.com\/forum\/#!forum\/webmasters\" class=\"external-link\">forum<\/a>!\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">\n  Written by<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108290787419744502823\/about\" rel=\"author\" class=\"external-link\">Kurt Dresner<\/a>,<br \/>\n  Webmaster Tools team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 12, 2012 Crawl errors is one of the most popular features in Webmaster Tools, and today we&#8217;re rolling out some very significant enhancements that will make it even more useful. We now detect and report many new types of errors. 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