8 Common Website Errors & How to Fix Them

Conducting a technical audit on your website is a great, proactive task to undertake on a regular basis, but actually being able to fix the errors found as a result of that audit is a whole other story. Luckily for most business owners, the majority of these website errors can be surprisingly easy to fix as long as you know where to start.

I’ve put together a list of some of the most common website errors that I have seen through my experience with technical audits and website assessments, and the steps you can take to fix them.

1. HTTP Errors
   HTTP errors can be a big frustration to website visitors. I’ve all experienced them ourselves and know first hand how annoying it can be to be browsing a website and then BAM! You hit a wall with an HTTP error.

These errors are messages from the web server indicating that something has gone wrong (clearly!), and there are a few specific types that are the most common:

401 (Unauthorized) ⇒ this error happens when someone tries to access a page for which they are not authorized. You can usually fix this error by reviewing the URL of the page that is causing the error; it’s possible that the link clicked is one that is for authorized users only (for example, users who have logins with a valid user ID and password).

403 (Forbidden) ⇒ this error occurs when a server will not complete a request because a user isn’t allowed to access it. Slightly different than a 401 error, a 403 error recognizes that a user may be logged in with a valid user ID and password, but does not have authorization to access the specific page. Typically, this means the user needs to have their user account access updated by the website administrator.

404 (Not Found) ⇒ this error is one that most people see on a regular basis. A 404 error occurs when a user tries to access a webpage that doesn’t (or no longer) exists. The causes of this error could be from broken links, incorrect URLs, or a redirected page that is no longer valid. This error can easily be fixed, however, by reviewing all of these crawl errors in Google Search Console, and submitting broken link re-directs in your website’s WordPress or content management system, or having your web developers add in the redirects for you.

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