From 4e47b3d0e6a5239da5a4874b74c02c95b757531a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Keith Lawrence Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 16:55:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] WIP - add documentation about what the warnings/errors mean and what you can do about them. --- docs/link-status-messages.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/link-status-messages.md diff --git a/docs/link-status-messages.md b/docs/link-status-messages.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8e7c8b99b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/link-status-messages.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +# Link Status Messages + +The link checker runs overnight with the list of current links, and the outcome of that check is displayed in various places: the Broken Links tab, the Councils tab (council homepages only), in the individual council pages and in the individual service pages. They are in three groups. + +# Good + +All links that are marked Good have been visited by the link checker without a problem. No action is required. + +# Warning + +Warning links highlight pages that cannot be properly checked, and come in the following types. + +* Note: Security problem +* Note: Page blocks robots - this can mean the page is behind a CDN (such as Cloudflare) which treats the GOV.UK webcrawler as a potential attack and + prompts it with a captcha to continue (the crawler cannot interact with the captcha). + +# Error + +* Broken: Website unavailable - this means the link returns a 404. SOLUTION: find the correct link and edit it. +* missing - this means the link is empty. SOLUTION: find the correct link and edit it.