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What may cause broken links on a website?

2018-08-08

Broken links can be caused by different problems:

  • Misspelled URLs: Sometimes people make make mistake when they copy a URL into a A HREF tag.
  • Malformatted URLs: Sometimes there are characters that modify the URL. For example, sometimes URLS are encoded with characters that the web server can’t interpret.
  • non-latin basic ASCII characters in URLs: We found that many web servers could consider that a link was broken because characters that were not part of english alphabet like éèàûüôç
  • Missing file: The file has been deleted
  • Moved file: The file has been moved to another location
  • Renamed file: The file has been renamed

All of those problems cause the same HTTP error code by the web server, a 404 “not found” error code

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