Online Broken Link Checker

Finding and fixing broken links is finally easy!

This free online Checker / Validator not just tells you which of your hyperlinks are dead but it will also show to your where exactly those stale references locate in your HTML code! Such a unique feature makes our free checking service stand out from other available detection tools, and makes it very easy for a webmaster to find and fix invalid URL in virtually no time! It's never been so easy to locate and fix dead weblinks.

Also this free website validation tool reports only hyperlinks that are broken unlike majority of other tools that list both good and broken weblinks all together making it's very hard to work with such "noisy" information.

Why having broken weblinks is so bad?

Dead hyperlinks on websites are not just annoying – their existence may cause some real damage for your online business and your reputation in the Internet!  

Because of that a web-site may:

• Lose some of the exiting customers (current users sooner or later will get frustrated enough to never come back)
• Get problems with getting new customers (because of the dead weblinks people simply won't be finding things/pages they are looking for).
• Ruin your reputation online (most of online customers consider stale hyperlinks as demonstration of no respect to them from the site's owner)
• Get negative impact on your website's ratings with major Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc

All that presents issue so serious that people sometimes say the "link rot problem" (or linkrot) referring to it (as you may already know "rotten" weblink is just another name for the same "dead URL" situation.

What is the nature of invalid hyperlinks?

With growth of web-site content it's getting harder and harder to manage relations between individual webpages and keep track of hyperlinks within a site. Unfortunately there are no perfect web-site integrity tools that can enforce proper relations between webpages, keep track of moving pages, webpage renames etc, and update corresponding URLs automatically. With time this causes some hyperlinks become obsolete, stale, and simply dead because they don't lead to valid pages anymore, and web-users are going to be getting 404 response codes (infamous Page Not Found errors) or other unsuccessful HTTP responses when try to access the web-pages. Modern content management systems (e.g. Joomla!) may contribute to the problem even more - by repeating the same dead weblinks across numerous web-pages they generate dynamically so people can get 404 errors much more frequently. All this happen to internal links.
With external ones the situation is even worse: the external website you are linking to can change names and locations of their websites any time without any notice. The external servers can be put down (temporarily or forever) or their domain expire or sold.

This is why you need our online link checker !

Due to lack of adequate problem detection tools (aka URL validators, web spiders, website's health checkers etc) it's really very hard to identify what exact hyperlinks became dead, and it's even harder to fix those because in order to do so you need to know precise location of the broken linking tag in the HTML code: without that you will need to scan through thousands lines of HTML to find exact HREF (or other linking sub-tag) that causes the problem.

This is exactly where our on-line URL Checker truely shines: it will check your webpages and will make you aware of invalid page references on your website, and will tell you precisely where to fix those! For each bad hyperlink found you will see a page that contains HTML source and highlights the actual hyperlink HTML tag containing the non-existent url.

As 100% online tool running in the Internet our free Website Scanner can be used on any computer no mater if it's Mac, PC, iPad and whether it runs Windows, Mac / Apple OS X, OSX, Linux or UNIX. New: Microsoft Windows 7 is fully supported! This makes it a true cross-platform SEO tool always ready to use.

More cool features are coming soon including higher free limits and a no-limit commercial version of this web site checker that will allow to validate huge sites without page limitations.