How do I check my website for broken links?

Use a broken link checker: paste your page URL, run the scan, and review the report of dead links with their HTTP status codes.

Do broken links hurt SEO?

Yes. Broken links waste crawl budget, create a poor user experience, and signal neglected content. Finding and fixing dead links helps search engines crawl your site efficiently and protects your rankings.

What is the difference between a 404 and a soft 404?

A 404 returns a proper not-found status code telling search engines the page is gone. A soft 404 displays a "not found" message but returns a 200 OK status, which confuses crawlers and can keep thin pages in the index.

How often should I check for broken links?

Run a check monthly for active sites, and after any redesign, migration, or bulk content update. Pages with many external links deserve more frequent checks since outbound links break most often.

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Broken Link Checker

Find dead links on any page in secondsNothing erodes trust in a website faster than a link that leads nowhere. Paste any page URL and this checker fetches the HTML, tests every unique link with a live HTTP request, and reports exact status codes.

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Find dead links on any page in seconds

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How to use the Broken Link Checker

Enter page URL

Enter the full URL of the page you want to scan (e.g. https://example.com/blog).

Scan links

Click "Check links" and up to 50 links on the page are tested live.

Fix broken links

Review the table: fix or remove the broken links, and update the redirected ones.

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About the Broken Link Checker

Links rot. Sites shut down, pages get deleted, and domains expire, leaving your pages pointing at 404s. Regular link audits are one of the simplest maintenance tasks that protect both user experience and rankings.

This checker fetches your page, extracts every unique link, and tests each one with an HTTP request. You get per-link status codes, a broken-vs-ok summary, and notes for redirects and timeouts, all within a 60-second scan.

Where it helps most

Catching link rot before your audience does.

Monthly maintenance

Site owners run a scan every month as cheap insurance, because external links rot the fastest of all by far.

Post-migration safety

After a redesign or migration, run it as a safety net to catch the internal links that broke during the move.

Redirect cleanup

Flagged redirects still work fine, but updating them to the final destination URL keeps your pages loading snappy for visitors.

Timeout triage

The report's plain-language notes help you distinguish real breakage from slow servers, temporary downtime or bot filtering quickly and confidently.

Scanning well

Know the scan's limits.

50 links per page

Up to 50 unique links are checked per page, five at a time, inside a 60-second scan.

Fewer false alarms

The checker falls back from HEAD to GET when servers block HEAD requests.

Untested honesty

Any links left untested are labeled as not checked, never marked broken.

Broken Link Checker: built for trust

Results land in a simple table with exact status codes and plain-language notes, so you can fix broken rows fast.

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Broken Link Checker FAQs

What counts as a broken link?

A broken link is any link whose target fails to load properly: it returns a 404 or another 4xx or 5xx status, times out, or refuses the connection. This checker tests every link on your page and marks exactly which ones fail.

How many links can it scan at once?

Should I worry about redirecting links?

What does a timeout result mean?

How often should I scan my pages?

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