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Broken Link Checker: Find the links on your site that lead nowhere

A broken link checker that follows every link on a page and the pages around it, and lists each one that fails with where it sits.

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Open the tool
example.comSample data
LinkFound onReply
/pricing-old/404
partner.example/docs/aboutTimeout
/blog/guide/blog301
/contact/200

AI in this tool

AI explains what each kind of failure usually means and how to fix it. Every link and reply comes from our own requests.

What you can do

  • Paste a page and check every link on it and on the pages it links to.
  • See each broken link with the page it sits on and its anchor text.
  • Spot dead domains, server errors and timeouts, not only 404s.
  • Find links that work but redirect, so they can point to the final address.
  • Download the list as a CSV file.

What happens during a check

  1. Read the page

    We fetch your page and collect every link on it.

  2. Follow nearby pages

    Pages it links to on the same site are read too, up to a small limit, obeying robots.txt.

  3. Test each link

    Every internal and external link is requested once, at a polite speed.

  4. List the problems

    Broken and redirected links are listed with where each one sits.

Default settings

Pages read
Your page and a small number around it
Links tested
Internal and external
robots.txt
Always obeyed
Export
CSV

Coming next

  • The whole site with Website Audit
  • Weekly re-checks
  • Broken links sent to Fix Tracker

What does it check?

It reads your page, then a small number of pages on the same site that your page links to. Every link it finds is tested once: links inside your site and links to other sites.

Each problem is shown with the page it sits on, the anchor text and the reply it got, so you can find it in your editor in seconds.

How is this different from a full site audit?

This checker looks at one page and the pages around it, which suits a quick check after a change. Website Audit crawls the whole site, finds every broken link and orphan page, and repeats the check every week.

Questions, answered

How many pages does it read?

Your page and a small number of pages it links to on the same site. Website Audit reads the whole site.

Does it obey robots.txt?

Yes. Pages the site blocks are not read.

Why is a working link listed?

It redirects. It still works, but linking straight to the final address is faster and cleaner.

Can a link work for me and fail here?

Yes. Some sites block automated requests or answer differently by country. The reply we got is shown with each link.