Response code help

[skippy_421]

On my sites statistics it includes:

Hits by response code

Code 200-Ok 1435
Code 206-Partial content 3
Code 301-Moved permanently 3
Code 302-Found 3
Code 304-Not modified 168
Code 404-Not found 52

I'm thinking "Ok" is good, but "not found" sounds like a broken link, but I can't find a broken link?

This is the site (http://www.aride4you.com)

Thanks

[Nightfire]

I guess it could come down to someone's ISP on the blink for a second, and making the users refresh to get the rest of the page... either that or you have a spacer image or something daft that you've forgotten to upload

[Spudhead]

Could it not also be as a result of someone trying to navigate to a nonexistent page, like by typing "www.yoursite.com/secretAdminArea.asp" in their browser?

(You can tell I'm not a hacker, can't you? ;))

[ronaldb66]

@Spudhead,

that can be a cause, but on a hand-coded page (wysiwig editors usually maintain the links themselves) a unobtrusive typo in a link href can result in pages not found as well.

@Skippy_421,

don't your statistics specifically list which page requests resulted in 404's?

[meow]

As said, snoopy people or bots. Don you have a robots.txt? Do you have a favicon.ico? Maybe 52 people using IE bookmarked your page and you don't have a favicon! :D

[Nightfire]

Aye, that could explain it. Using Konqueror, it looks for the favicon on every site/page you open with it, whether it's bookmarked or not.

[meow]

Konq too? I thought it only was stupid IE. :p

[skippy_421]

I don't know what "robots.txt" or "favicon.ico" are? So I'm thinking I don't have them!

Is there a thread in this forum that covers those?

@ Ronaldb66,
My site is on jumpline.com, don't see any stats that tell me which page requests result in 404's, but the favicon.ico issue above probably is my solution.

Thanks

[Nightfire]

http://www.favicon.com

robot.txt is a txt file which a search engine 'bot will look for. You don't really need it though,