Impact Of Console Errors in A Website

Posted By : Himanshu Agarwal | 06-Feb-2018

Sometimes we get some console errors on our website. Although they don't affect the functionality
most of the times they are ugly. Apart from being annoying, they can also negatively impact our website.

1) First of all, they directly affect search engine rankings. The greater the number of console errors
the greater being the negative impact. Although this is not a huge ranking factor your
website can definitely go down a few slots.

2) They can poorly impact UX. Due to broken links and images, users get less from a website
than if all links were working properly.

3) Of course a website appears outdated with console errors in it.

How to Find and Fix these console errors on your website.
Broadly speaking there could be issues either in your css code or javascript code.

1) Lets discuss about css errors : Generally, css errors are those of broken links, wrong image paths.
They occur basically when either an image doesn't exist or is not kept at the right place.
They are pretty easy to fix by keeping the image at the correct place for images with wrong paths.
And the code for the images that are not existing must be removed or we should keep the non-existing
images at the correct path.

2) Second are javascript errors: Now these are the errors which can sometimes break you functionality
as well apart from being ugly. Most of the times they are found during validation, the most common
being missing null checks.

While fixing them one should be very careful and check if other functionalities are not broken.

Conclusion: Broken links, console errors can have many consequences, most important being loss of
search engine ranking and lack of authority. And they cannot be overlooked.