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Google has just revamped the crawl errors data available in webmaster tools. Crawl errors are issues Googlebot encountered while crawling your site, so useful stuff!

I originally started this article by writing that in most cases, these changes are for the better and in only a few (really maddening) cases, useful functionality has been removed. But now that Ive gone through the changes, I unfortunately need to revise my summary. This update is mostly about removing super useful data, masked by a few user interface changes. (And I hate to write that, because webmaster tools is near and dear to my heart.)

So whats changed?

Crawl errors have been organized into two categories: site errors and URL errors. Site errors are those which are likely site-wide, as opposed to URL-specific.

Site errors are categorized as:

URL errors are page-specific.

URL errors are categorized as:

Google now shows trends over the last 90 days for each error type. The daily count seems to be the aggregate count of how many URLs with that error type Google knows about, not the number crawled that particular day. As Google recrawls a URL and no longer gets the error, its removed from the list (and the count).

In addition, Google still lists the date Googlebot first encountered the error, but now when you click the URL to see the details, you can see the last time Googlebot tried to access the URL as well.

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Google Webmaster Tools Revamps Crawl Errors, But Is It For The Better?