Broken Link Checker
Find and fix broken links on your website to improve user experience and SEO.
Start Link Check
Enter the full URL including https:// or http://
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Scan Results
Enter a URL and click "Start Scan" to begin checking for broken links
About Broken Link Checker
This tool helps you maintain your website's link health by:
- Finding broken internal and external links
- Identifying redirected links that may slow down your site
- Checking image sources for broken references
- Scanning multiple levels of your website's structure
- Providing detailed reports for fixing issues
Frequently Asked Questions
A Broken Link Checker scans a website and identifies URLs that no longer work so you can fix errors and improve SEO performance.
Yes. Search engines may lower rankings for sites with many broken links. Fixing them helps crawling and user experience.
Yes. The scanner inspects internal links, external links, and image sources for issues.
The tool checks HTTP status codes (200 = working, 3xx = redirect, 4xx/5xx = broken). If a HEAD request is blocked, it falls back to GET and reports errors if still inaccessible.
For active sites scan every 2–4 weeks. For static sites, scanning every 2–3 months is usually sufficient.
Some remote servers may block HEAD/GET from the browser due to CORS. The tool attempts fallbacks and marks such links accordingly; server-side scanning (or a proxy) removes that limit.
Yes — use the "Export Results (CSV)" button to download a report of URLs, status and origin.
If "Check image links" is enabled it will include
<img src> references in the scan.
Use the "Scan Depth" option to control how many levels of subpages the tool follows. Higher depth increases coverage and runtime.
Yes — this Broken Link Checker is provided free as part of the CompareFutureTech toolkit.