Skip to Main Content
Sustainable Web Design Logo
  • Home
  • Guidelines
  • Emissions
  • Ratings
  • Contact

◂ Hosting, Infrastructure, and Systems guidelines

4.4 Setup necessary error pages and redirection links

Hosting, Infrastructure, and Systems

Provide clear error handling and ensure broken links are either fixed or redirected to destinations to prevent navigation issues.

Success Criteria

  • Error pages:
    Implement clear error handling and user-friendly error pages that explain what went wrong and guide users back to content.
  • Redirection:
    Update broken and outdated links if they are no longer valid. Use redirects only when they clearly benefit users or preserve SEO value, and avoid long or unnecessary redirect chains. Apply proportionality so engineering and maintenance costs do not outweigh performance or SEO gains. Test redirects to prevent errors and loops, and choose the simplest effective approach.

View the Guideline

Tags

AccessibilityCompatibilityNetworkingUIUsabilityContentMarketing

Share

More hosting, infrastructure, and systems guidelines

4.1 Use sustainable hosting

Hosting, Infrastructure, and Systems

4.2 Optimize caching and support offline access

Hosting, Infrastructure, and Systems

4.3 Reduce data transfer with compression

Hosting, Infrastructure, and Systems

Learn about W3C’s Sustainable Web Interest Group:

A global community advancing sustainability on the web.

Explore the group

This site is brought to you by

Mightybytes Wholegrain Digital
Website Carbon

This page loaded in 0.25 seconds and emitted just 0.5g of CO2

Visit Website Carbon
Ecograder

How green is your website?

Visit Ecograder
© Copyright Sustainable Web Design 2026. Privacy Policy.