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HTTP 410 Gone — What It Means

What HTTP status code 410 Gone means, when servers return it, and how to handle it correctly.

Published September 24, 2026

HTTP 410 Gone — The requested resource is no longer available and was intentionally, permanently removed.

Key points

  • Unlike 404, this deliberately signals the resource used to exist but was intentionally removed for good
  • Useful for search engines to fully deindex a page instead of continuing to recheck it
  • Rarely used in practice — most sites just return a plain 404 for removed content
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