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Whether 404 custom error page necessary for a website?

3rd January 2014

My answer to Whether 404 custom error page necessary for a website? on Quora

They aren’t required, but if you don’t have a custom 404 page you’re missing out on a very easy way of improving the user experience of your site, and protecting against expired or incorrect links from elsewhere on the web.

Even just a search box and a link to your homepage is enough to ensure visitors who arrive on a 404 can still visit the rest of your site, and hopefully find what they were looking for when they clicked on the link.

This is Whether 404 custom error page necessary for a website? by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd January 2014.

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