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sumondutta
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Can adobe sitecatalyst capture broken links - HTTP 404 error ??

  • September 4, 2023
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HI,

does anyone in the forum have experience or idea how can we can derive this.

Broken links are not a good experience for the end user and also not for the company owning the website.

So, if we can capture those can easily try to fix it.

 

Thanks

Sumon

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Best answer by Jennifer_Dungan

Keep in mind, the suggested solutions still require that you have tracking on those 404 pages, and you pass the correct tag.

 

There is one minor issue, IF your site redirects all your 404 pages to a generic URL like https://www.domain.com/404.html" then this is the URL that will be tracked in the report... if the URL stays as "https://www.domain.com/ertertertyetyaw" then this will give you proper visibility into which pages are 404ing...

 

If you have the redirect scenario, you may need to work with your developers to pass the "pre-redirected url" so that you can track it with some custom tracking on the 404 page

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FarazHusain
Adobe Employee
FarazHusainAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
September 4, 2023

Hey @sumondutta I believe this should help -https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/analytics/components/dimensions/pages-not-found.html?lang=en

 

Pages not found dimension retrieves data from the pageType and g query strings in image requests. If the pageType query string equals errorPage, the g query string (page URL) is recorded. AppMeasurement collects this data using the pageType variable. If the pageType variable is not defined or set to anything other than errorPage, no data for this dimension is collected.

    RobertBlakeley
    Community Advisor
    RobertBlakeleyCommunity Advisor
    Community Advisor
    September 4, 2023

    And Adobe has created a pages not found report and a pages not found metric in Workspace.

     

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      Jennifer_Dungan
      Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
      Jennifer_DunganCommunity Advisor and Adobe ChampionAccepted solution
      Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
      September 5, 2023

      Keep in mind, the suggested solutions still require that you have tracking on those 404 pages, and you pass the correct tag.

       

      There is one minor issue, IF your site redirects all your 404 pages to a generic URL like https://www.domain.com/404.html" then this is the URL that will be tracked in the report... if the URL stays as "https://www.domain.com/ertertertyetyaw" then this will give you proper visibility into which pages are 404ing...

       

      If you have the redirect scenario, you may need to work with your developers to pass the "pre-redirected url" so that you can track it with some custom tracking on the 404 page

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