{"id":1476,"date":"2020-06-07T21:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1476"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:54:12","slug":"what-is-a-404-error-page","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/what-is-a-404-error-page","title":{"rendered":"What is a \u2018404\u2019 error page?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/syhzhuelbxgnhopnwjgc.supabase.co\/storage\/v1\/object\/public\/media\/blog\/404_page_cover.jpg\" alt=\"404 error page\" width=\"396\" height=\"265\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>What is a \u2018404\u2019 error page?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Page Not Found errors are also known as a a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/whatis\/definition\/404-status-code\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">404 error<\/a> page. It happens when a visitor to your site tries to access a page that doesn\u2019t exist on your site for one reason or another. These errors typically occur when someone mistypes a URL on your site, when there\u2019s a broken link from another page, when a page that previously existed is moved or removed, or there is an error when a search engine indexes your site. For a typical site, these errors account for c. 3% of the total page views, but they\u2019re often untracked by traditional analytics platforms like Google Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>Page Not Found\/404 errors would be something you would want to look at working with your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/\">hosting provider<\/a> to correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a \u2018404\u2019 error page? Page Not Found errors are also known as a a 404 error page. It happens when a visitor to your site tries to access a page that doesn\u2019t exist on your site for one reason or another. These errors typically occur when someone mistypes a URL on your site, when there\u2019s a broken link&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[43],"kbtag":[1472],"class_list":["post-1476","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cloudflare","kbtag-404-error-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6098,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1476\/revisions\/6098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}