Validate all links on your website instantly. Check for broken links, categorize internal/external links, and discover RSS feeds to maintain a healthy website.
Get instant results on link validity with comprehensive status codes and error messages.
Automatically categorizes links as internal/external and identifies special content like RSS feeds.
Group external links by domain to see which sites you reference most frequently.
Automatically discovers and validates RSS feeds to keep your content syndication healthy.
Get answers to common questions about our website link checker tool
A Link Checker is a tool that automatically scans your website to verify that all links are working properly. It helps you identify broken links (404 errors), slow-loading pages, and other link-related issues that can negatively impact your website's SEO and user experience. Regular link checking is essential for maintaining a professional website and ensuring visitors don't encounter dead links.
Our Link Checker uses advanced web scraping technology to analyze your website. The process involves fetching and parsing your website's HTML content, extracting all links and RSS feeds, testing each link for accessibility and response time, categorizing links as internal, external, or RSS feeds, and providing detailed results with status codes and error messages.
Our Link Checker supports multiple URL formats with intelligent protocol detection. You can enter domain only (example.com), full URLs with HTTPS or HTTP, subdomains (www.example.com, blog.example.com), and specific pages. The tool automatically normalizes URLs and handles both HTTP and HTTPS websites seamlessly, trying HTTPS first then HTTP if needed.
Our Link Checker can identify and analyze various types of links including internal links pointing to pages within the same domain, external links pointing to other websites, RSS feeds from both link tags and URL-based detection, document links to PDFs and images, and secure links using both HTTP and HTTPS protocols. The tool automatically filters out non-web links like mailto, tel, and javascript schemes.
Our system uses comprehensive validation methods to identify broken links through HTTP status codes like 404 (Not Found), 500 (Server Error), and 403 (Forbidden), timeout errors for links taking longer than 8 seconds to respond, SSL issues with invalid or expired security certificates, DNS failures for domains that can't be resolved, and connection refused errors. Each broken link includes detailed error information to help you understand and fix the issue.
Yes! Our Link Checker provides several ways to export and use your results. You can use the "All Links & All Results" view for a simple text format showing all discovered links, copy all links with a one-click button, export specific categories (broken, internal, external, RSS), organize external links by their domains, and access previous checks through history storage. This makes it perfect for creating reports, fixing issues, or integrating with other SEO tools.
The frequency of link checking depends on your website's activity and content updates. High-traffic sites should check weekly or bi-weekly, content-heavy blogs should check monthly or after major updates, e-commerce sites need weekly checks due to frequent product changes, business websites can check monthly or quarterly for stable content, and you should always check after website redesigns or major changes. Our tool includes a 24-hour cache to prevent server overload.
Our Link Checker is designed to be comprehensive while respecting web standards. There are timeout limits of 8 seconds per link and 15 seconds for initial page load, rate limiting to prevent abuse and server overload, 24-hour caching to reduce repeated requests, analysis limited to public sites only (no password-protected content), and batch processing of links in groups of 10 for optimal performance. These limitations ensure reliable performance and respectful web crawling practices.
Maintain your website's SEO performance and user experience with regular link checking. Our free tool helps thousands of website owners identify and fix broken links every day.