Online Broken Link Checker

Finding and fixing broken link problems 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 checking service stand out from other available problem detection tools, and makes it very convenient for a webmaster to find bad URLs in virtually no time. It's never been so easy to locate and fix dead weblinks!

This free website validation tool reports only hyperlinks that are really broken - unlike other popular tools which list both good and bad weblinks all mixed together making it's very hard to comprehend and work with such "noisy" information. Also our linking problem finder analyses entire site - its web-content as a whole, keeps track of issues already reported and doesn't repeat the same invalid URL unless you ask about that - the tool is very flexible.

Why having broken weblinks is so bad?

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

Because of that a web-site may:

• Lose some of the existing customer base (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).
• Damage your reputation online (most of online customers consider stale hyperlinks as demonstration of no respect to them from the site's owners)
• 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 or services that can enforce proper relationship between pages, keep track of moving content, webpage renames etc, and update corresponding URLs automatically. With time this causes some hyperlinks become obsolete, stale, dangling, and simply - dead because they don't lead to valid pages anymore, and web-users are going to get 404 response codes (infamous Page Not Found errors) or other unsuccessful HTTP responses each time when they try to access the web-pages. Modern content management systems (e.g. Joomla!) may aggravate the problem even more - by replicating the same dead weblinks across numerous if web-pages which they generate dynamically so people can be getting 404 errors much more frequently. All the just described happens to internal links all the time.
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 be sold. Alas you don't have any control over such things so the only good remedy would be performing regular sanity tests probing each single reference to make sure it's still alive.

Why you need our online link checker

Due to lack of adequate problem detection tools (aka URL validators, web spiders, website's health analyzers 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 entire site - all pages searching for issues and will make you aware of invalid webpage references on your website, and it 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 HTML tag containing the non-working url.

As 100% online tool running in the Internet our free Website Scanner & Problem Detector can be used on any computer no mater if it's Mac, PC, iPad, Droid and whether it runs Windows, Mac / Apple OSX, Android, Linux or UNIX. It's Microsoft Windows 7 compatible as well! All popular browsers are fully supported including (but not limited to) IE, Firefox & Mozilla, Chrome, Opera and Safari. All this makes this analyser a true cross-platform SEO tool always ready for your use! Moreover, our HTTP server spider is capable of crawling and checking any website no matter if it's coded by hand - with pure HTML / XHTML, or is based on PHP, ASP, JSP, Cold Fusion etc or is built using Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, DotNetNuke, Magento, or any other CMS and e-Commerce platforms.

We are getting a lot of positive feedback and many webmasters name this service as one of the best tools available on the World-Wide-Web. Try it yourself to see why it's so popular!

More cool & free features are coming soon including higher limits, MS Excel report export, and for SEO experts - additional configurational parameters.

There is also a no-limit commercial version of this checker available that allows to validate sites of any size (even huge ones) without page limitations, get results exported in CSV format, and have automated reports produced for you by scheduled runs. For details please contact us anytime.

 

Customers:
Read about our clients

We are welcoming

Testimonials:

"Your site is great and very user friendly. The best online link checker I've come across. Keep it up." Jonathan, South Africa

"Thanks so much for your great little tool! ... it REALLY stands out from other such tools on the internet." Demii, Australia

"I'm finding your broken link checker extremely useful. Thank you for making it available! " Clotilde, France

"...The fact that you donate a bit to help volunteer websites is admirable. Great job! " Jim, US

"By far the best broken link checker that I have found! It appears to go recursively through my blog, and is very accurate. Thanks!" Greg, US

"Just want to say how much delighted I am with your free services." Sonja, Croatia

"Congratulations. I found your checker to be the best one yet." Stephen, US

"I would recommend this tool to use for SEO hopefuls and experts." The prophet, US

"Many thanks and congratulations for this excellent service." Jose, Columbia

"We just want to say THANK YOU for providing your brokenlinkchecker to us." Peter, US

"You run a super website with this fantastic tool saving us buckets of time:" Arthur, Switzerland

"Just want to say THANK YOU very much. Excellent program." Bydewey, Canada

"I am really fond of your tool." Nuffic.com Webmaster, NL

"I appreciate that your report did not include all the noise I see when [other tool] runs on my site. " Amalia, US

"I am very impressed with your checker. " Neha, UK

"Thank you for providing us with this excellent tool! It's the only one I've found that actually discovers broken links, then TELLS YOU WHERE TO FIND THEM. I can't thank you enough for giving us this excellent tool for free... " Wendy, US

"I came across your site and found it very helpful, thanks for providing such a convenient tool. " Sunny, Canada

"This is free: How are you giving this for free ???" :) Kamala, India