5xx Server Errors

[Clayco]

Hey all,

Recently my site has seen a rise in 5xx errors which have all popped up since the first of the year.

Our company made a big announcement on 1/4 which drove a lot of traffic to the site, which I thought may be a reason for the sudden errors.  But the errors have since continued. Also, the crawl from last week showed no errors at all (which I'm sure was a fluke)

Taking a closer look in GA, the pages that are receiving errors have not been visited for months.

Is this a random occurrence or should I consult someone to investigate our server?

Thanks,
Chris

[TakeshiYoung]

5xx errors refer to server errors, and can be caused by serious issues with the way your server is configured.  I would definitely look investigate it further.

[irvingw]

This could also be something as simple as a bad code on some pages too. look at those old pages and see if there is a template or something associated with these pages that only they share. Might be isolating a script or disabling a plugin.

[Clayco]

Thanks for the input, guys.

Looks like the move to make right now is double check code, then if the problem persists, dig into server issues.

[irvingw]

One client I recently worked with had CloudFlare installed and it was causing tons of 500 errors. We removed it and they went away. Like I said see if you can identify specific pages it's happening on and isolate the code that is on those pages only. Good luck!

[Clayco]

The crawl is showing that the errors are happening on very specific pages, so it may be a simpler solution like what you're describing.