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Site Errors Breakdown

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 1:29 PM

Webmaster level: All

Today we’re announcing more detailed Site Error information in Webmaster Tools. This information is useful when looking for the source of your Site Errors. For example, if your site suffers from server connectivity problems, your server may simply be misconfigured; then again, it could also be completely unavailable!  Since each Site Error (DNS, Server Connectivity, and Robots.txt Fetch) is comprised of several unique issues, we’ve broken down each category into more specific errors to provide you with a better analysis of your site’s health.

Site Errors will display statistics for each of your site-wide crawl errors from the past 90 days.  In addition, it will show the failure rates for any category-specific errors that have been affecting your site.




If you’re not sure what a particular error means, you can read a short description of it by hovering over its entry in the legend.  You can find more detailed information by following the “More info” link in the tooltip.


We hope that these changes will make Site Errors even more informative and helpful in keeping your site in tip-top shape.  If you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know through the Webmaster Tools Help Forum.

Written by Cesar Cuenca and Tiffany Wang, Webmaster Tools Interns
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35 comments:

Matthew Forzan said...

More great features added to GWT! Great to see the Google team adding more and more features to the suite!

P.S. I think you may have a typo in your title! "Site" has been written with an upper-case "I"!

RamanMaan said...

Yes, the description of site errors will help users to better deal with the particular errors.

Ifinder said...

Very very awesome and great.
Hope and Request for OnSpot error rectification.
With all Appreciations and Regards.

Anand Mistry said...

This is very good implementation to know more about website health.

JohnMc said...

In the tab of 404 or 410 Errors, besides the FIXED button, please add one more button to DEFINITELY delete this pages. It is so frustrating to mark GONE pages as FIXED and they come back and appear again. I'm getting everyday URLs deleted more than 6 months ago. Thanks.

Rahul Gupta said...

It's great feature. now we can focus more on the website for SEO prospective.

Thanks.

admin said...

Thank you for your valuable contribution. Keep adding some great tool to monitor website.

metamercadeo said...

Haa!! well done ! excelent, more founded reasons now to blame the web hosts!!

Jitendra Ayman said...

Great job google. Without you my company won't exist.

Sankar Datti said...

All webmaster new features are helping us to give better to our clients.

Thanks
Sankar

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Sachin Batwal said...

Nice one.........Thanks for the information.

araghu said...

This is a great new feature – thanks!

DisgruntledGoat said...

Please please please allow me to BLOCK SPAM SITES from the Crawl Errors section!

I'm getting tons of errors for URLs that do not and have never existed on my site because spam sites are linking to them.

Spam Breakers said...

Really nice information to Webmasters. Thanks for sharing the information...

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Bill Hunt said...

Is there a launch date on this? I just looked in WMT and we have DNS errors on a few sites and dont' have the additional info yet.

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Navin Kumar said...

thanks, i welcome this feature. now we will focus on seo having this server error concerns in our mind.

Blurbpoint Media said...

Site error description will more helpful for those who are non SEO people and using webmaster tool. By description we can beat site errors.

Resume Sample said...

It is good suggestion for websites health.
There are no. of error in URL.

Remen Raj said...

That's Really Helpful...

Sharma said...

It's Good, How about if we use some CDN Technologoies or some Caching Methods ? because if the site down from server then it's not available in live.

Geraldine Werzbickiroach said...

Because I'm a newbie and not tech-savvy, many of Google's technicalities and rationale pass me by. For example, I know I can't understand computer code but what could possibly be the reason for making the capcha samples so difficult to read? This isn't a matter of national security, or is it? What if you simply have poor eyesight? I'm 71 tears old and trying to enter your world, the world in which my grandchildren already reside and I'm outside knocking at the door.

I 'm a writer with a website that publishes my work. I love writing and want only to reach people but you make this task difficult. I've tried to follow the map of your directions but I've no idea whethe I have or I haven't, whether I'm in or I'm out.

From many years of teaching I know that if you place knowledge you wih to inculcate beyond the reach of the student, that student will give up and lose more than the subject matter at hand.You risk destroying his self-esteem.

I'm too uptight or serious or something, you'll probably say. Sorry, Google, but even if you remove my comments, you made me mad!

Admin said...

Same like this post title "Site Errors Breakdown", i wanna post the "Errors" on Google on this pict

http://www.danedomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Google-Bad.jpg

Zoekmachine Optimalisatie said...

It's very handy indeed that google webmaster tools gives a description of the site errors that will help users to better deal with some particular errors and to identify them better. And this is a very good way to increase your website health and fix them errors!

JChristie said...

this is what I like about Google technology, thx

ashok kumar said...

hope this will help in better seo. great features....

Andrew Buckle said...

Be great if the errors were real errors.

Most of the errors listed are often pages long deleted or weird network errors or errors on other sites such a typo on another site. Can't think of a single error in the site errors section that was an error I can actually fix.

If google actually scanned the site instead of relying on other sites for links back to my site - the listings would definitely be improved.

There is no point for the site errors breakdown to keep listing files that have long been deleted or uppercase errors such as /Products instead of the actual /products folder or weird html errors where type is added to the end of .htm files (I would love to see the parameter page include an option to just ignore 'all parameters' and 'files other than the basic htm or html files'

SHAHAB said...

Hi Admin.
When I try clear history of Google chrome, it's not done. Although it shows that the history is cleared but it's not happening in real. Please look into the matter.

cczy said...

Sometimes I think, that already no space for improval of Google tools and features, but everytime I'm not correct. Google team create new and new helpful possibilities. Thank you.

appzhunt.com said...

what is DNS error??? how it's solve?????

Lynn said...

I'm getting a URL error for a non-existent webpage on a blogspot.com blog. Doesn't need robots.txt as there's nothing to block; it's got all the Blogger default settings in scrawling/search preferences - so WHY is Google upset with Google?! :/

Litertaurportal "Gedanken sind frei" said...

"...it will show the failure rates for any category-specific errors that have been affecting your site."

Therefore I have some questions:

- What kind of affect do you mean?
- Is the complete site affected or only the pages which can not be reached?