CSS and Spiders
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I am using website auditor for my onsite SEO and I am getting a ton of CSS warnings. How important is to fix these issues? Where would you place this in you priority list?
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None of those is there anything else we should avoid?
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Minify css, use shorthand, avoid @import, old unsupported css code.
Since I'm not sure what kind of warning you are getting, it is really tough to answer your question.
Here is a great css tool: http://www.minifycss.com/css-compressor/
and you can Validate it here: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
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Can you please give me an example?
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Again, it all depends on the error. There are css errors that hurt performance of the site.
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None of those, these are only CSS errors and they target styling only.
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Definitely.
The error could be a broken url (404) not found, or maybe a redirected url (301 or 302) redirect.
It is really hard to diagnose unless we know the exact warnings you are getting.
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Oh, Is there a difference in the severity of the errors? I thought errors were just errors...
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It all depends on the warning. What are they?
I treat every warning or error as a priority since if a tool can find them, so can Google.
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