Checking your website for errors

If you have had a new website then you will realise the importance of checking it before it goes live to the wider public. Setting a site live that has issues where parts of it do not work or display as it should have a negative impact on your business and it is therefore not advised to do so. You are better to delay the site for a few days whilst you fix the issues before setting it live.

If your website has been running for a number of months or years then there is still no harm in checking it for errors as things often come up with new browser updates and changes to the content management software you are using.

You can, of course, check the site manually by clicking links, filling on contact forms etc but you should also use one of the many tools out there that will check through the code of your site for errors. These sites can often pick up on issues with the robots.txt file, for example, supplicate content and broken links which you may have not easily been able to see yourself. Fixing errors such as these may also help your rankings on the search engines.