Eliminating 404 errors and missing assets
Getting 404 errors is the most annoying thing that the user can have when they visit your website. Search engine crawlers have also taken this up as a serious issue. If you use the Google analytics tool on your website, you can get all the 404 pages in your website. To do this, navigate to Google analytic | Behavior | Site Content | Content Drilldown and search for 404
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Using this information, you can fix your site's 404 errors with ease. Also, remember that sometimes we can't prevent the occurrence of all the 404 errors on the website because we are constantly working on our website, and it's a never ending process. However, make sure that you are aware of it so that you can fix it later.
Also, you can find the 404 errors that the search engine crawlers have encountered using webmaster tools. There are three main webmasters tools available out there and they will tell you which 404 errors they have found:
- Google search console
- Bing...