Broken Link Checker

Find and fix broken links before visitors do

Dead links frustrate readers, waste crawl budget and leak the value of your internal linking. This checker reads a page, lists every link in its HTML and tests each one, showing the status code, where redirects end up, the anchor text and whether the link is internal or external, followed or nofollow.

How the check works

1. The page is fetched and its links are collected: anchors with an http or https address, with duplicates and in-page jump links removed. Email, phone and JavaScript links are counted but not tested.
2. Each link is requested with a light HEAD request that downloads no content. If a server refuses HEAD, the checker retries with a normal request and stops reading after the headers.
3. Results appear live as each link finishes, four at a time. You can stop at any moment and still export what was checked.

Reading the results

• Working (2xx): nothing to do.
• Redirected: the link works but goes through one or more redirects. Point it straight at the final URL, especially for internal links.
• Broken (4xx, 5xx): fix the address, link to a replacement page or remove the link. For your own pages, a 301 redirect from the old URL also fixes links from other sites.
• Blocked or error: the server refused automated checks (403, 429, 999) or did not answer in time. Open these links yourself before you change them.

Run the checker on your most visited pages and on old blog posts first, since external links rot fastest there. Export the CSV to share a fix list with your content team.