HTTP 206 Partial Content

What does HTTP 206 mean?

The server is delivering only the byte range the client asked for with a Range header. Video and audio players use range requests to seek, and download managers use them to resume interrupted downloads. The response includes Content-Range to say which bytes are included.

2xx Success: The request was received, understood and accepted.

206 and SEO

No impact on indexing.

Example response

HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Content-Range: bytes 0-1023/146515
Content-Length: 1024

Related status codes

• 200 OK — The request succeeded and the response body contains the requested resource.
• 416 Range Not Satisfiable — The byte range requested with Range is outside the resource.

Check which status code a URL returns with the HTTP header checker.