How to pick up on errors with your website quickly

It is important to keep a close eye on your website and be sure to have system in place that allow you to find out quickly if there is a problem. There are a number of different tools you can use which will help you notice errors before they cause too much of a problem. If your site is regularly indexed then you can set it up to get notifications from Google about crawling issues. This will usually be done through emails to the people who manage the Webmaster Tools account.

Within the Webmaster tools software, you can also see which pages are returning error codes, have elements that are not working correctly (I.e. mobile elements too close together) or hat are not indexed in the search engine results.

Looking at analytics, you can see what your traffic is doing. It may be that you notice a sudden drop in traffic which needs investigating quickly. IT may be that your website server has gone down and so your whole website is offline or possibly that a certain page has been corrupted and therefore not loading. Once spotted many of these issues are often easy to fix.