Comments on: 23 percent of the top US websites have bad 404 error pages

By: Web designers

Web designers — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:38:22 +0000

I just would like to re-direct the page to the homepage with a tiny message stating that the page does not exists

By: FN

FN — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:38:57 +0000

I love custom 404 pages. Ours is http://www.virid.us/asdfasdfasdf

By: Mrs. Micah

Mrs. Micah — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:29:20 +0000

I hadn’t really thought about this. Just tested my site and found out that it loads like a normal blog page (probably an advantage of having a 404 page in my CSS) only with an error message. You can search in the sidebar and the top has nav links—but there are definitely some ways to make it better! Thanks for pointing this out. At least I can beat Google at something.

By: Bad 404 Error Pages | Sideblog | Smashing Magazine

Bad 404 Error Pages | Sideblog | Smashing Magazine — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:09:20 +0000

[...] Apparently, 23% of the top US websites have bad 404 error pages — among them are Google and YouTube. There are dozens of ways to design 404-pages in a more user-friendly way. [...]

By: 404 Pages: The Bad, the Good and the Poetic « GigaOM

404 Pages: The Bad, the Good and the Poetic « GigaOM — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:08:39 +0000

[...] by Anne Zelenka Monday, November 19, 2007 at 10:08 AM PT | No comments Nearly one in four of the top 100 web sites in the U.S., including Google and YouTube, have 404error pages largely devoid of any helpful information, in some cases not even the name of site you were (unsuccessfully) trying to access, according to Royal Pingdom. [...]