My Number One “Resource Not Found”

The data is in.

The number one requested resource on my blog which doesn’t exist is:

/robots.txt

According to Netlify’s analytics, that resources was requested 15,553 times over the last thirty days.

Same story for other personal projects I manage:

“That many requests and it serves a 404? Damn Jim, you better fix that quick!”

Nah, I’m good.

Why fix it? I have very little faith that the people who I want most to respect what’s in that file are not going to do so.

So for now, I’m good serving a 404 for robots.txt.

Change my mind.

Change my mind meme with guy sitting in front of a table and the text “just gonna let `robots.txt` return a 404. CHANGE MY MIND” underneath.