Server errors

[Mr Spock]

While studying my stats I noted that 404 page errors amounted to 4.23% of total page requests?

What is an acceptable level of 404 errors?
What can I do to lower that %?
Can I using htaccess redirect 404 traffic? (ie will it cause problems getting listed on certain LL)

[Maj. Stress]

Do you know what is causing the 404 errors? Sometimes it is unethical people trying to find an exploit on your server. Sometimes it is a fixable error. I'd suggest looking at your error logs and determine what is going on first.

[cd34]

also, check to see if most of those requests are for favicon.ico

When people bookmark, and when firefox views a page, both attempt to pull favicon.ico.

[Mr Spock]

Majority seems to be favicon. I am more worried about 404 errors causing my links to be pulled.

[Wazdom]

links unlikely to be pulled unless pages you submitted go 404 |thumb

[Lot]

I think it's even more than 4,23%...

[HowlingWulf]

Like people said a 404 could be missing pages (dead links), missing favico file, or incorrect type-in urls. You can fix the first two by checking your logs. For the third you can't stop people from changing a valid www.domain.com/gallery2 to www.domain.com/gallery3 to see if he gets another gallery.