OSE Report Shows HTTP Status "No Data"

[debc]

Open Site Explorer shows HTTP Status "No Data" on 1,575 urls of the 3,335 urls listed in the "Top Pages" report for my site.  What does this mean?

[BrianCrouch]

Hi Debora,

There could be a number of reasons, but the first thing to do is double-check. http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/ has a free tool to download: just enter the URL and you should get a spidered report on whether that many pages (50% of your pages!) are indeed returning HTTP Status "No Data"  or Not found/404 errors.

It could have been an anomaly in OSE, so cross check first.  Do a crawl test while you're at it: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test

[debc]

Thanks Brian, I double checked with screamingfrog and also a crawl with seomoz and both looked ok so I guess it must have been an anomoly in OSE!

[BrianCrouch]

Good deal! Should we consider this Q answered?

[debc]

yes, thanks!