Broken Link Checker

A broken link checker scans a page, follows every link on it, and reports the ones that fail — 404 not found, 410 gone, timeouts, dead domains — with the status code for each. Links rot constantly: studies put average link decay at several percent per year, so a page that was perfect at publish accumulates corpses on a schedule.

The cost is threefold: visitors hitting dead ends lose trust and leave; crawlers waste your crawl budget on 404s; and broken internal links sever the pathways that spread ranking strength between your pages. Manual checking — clicking every link — stops scaling at about one page; a checker does the whole page in seconds.

Enter a page URL, click Find Broken Links, and get the list: every link that fails, its status code, and where it points — so you fix them instead of hunting for them.

Triage by type: broken internal links (yours → yours) are the priority — fix the href or add a 301 redirect at the target (our .htaccess Redirect Generator), because these leak SEO equity directly. Broken outbound links (yours → other sites) hurt trust and content quality — relink to a live source, the Wayback Machine's archived copy, or remove the reference. Rescan your key pages on a schedule — quarterly for most sites, monthly for link-heavy resource pages, and always after restructuring URLs.

Bonus SEO move: run the checker on top pages in your niche, find their dead outbound links, and offer your content as the replacement — "broken link building" remains one of the most legitimate outreach tactics.