Find Broken Links on Your Website
Scan your website for broken links that hurt SEO and frustrate visitors. Our tool uses your sitemap.xml to efficiently check all pages.
Why Broken Links Hurt Your Website
SEO Impact
Search engines like Google view broken links as a sign of poor website maintenance. Sites with many 404 errors can see their rankings drop as crawlers waste their budget on dead pages instead of indexing your valuable content.
User Experience
Nothing frustrates visitors more than clicking a link and hitting a dead end. Broken links erode trust in your brand and increase bounce rates. Studies show 88% of users are less likely to return to a site after a bad experience.
Link Equity Loss
When external sites link to pages that no longer exist, you lose valuable "link juice" that could boost your rankings. Every broken inbound link is wasted SEO potential that your competitors might be capturing instead.
Lost Revenue
For e-commerce sites, broken product links mean lost sales. If a customer can't find what they're looking for, they'll buy from your competitor. Regular link audits ensure your sales funnel stays intact.
How Our Broken Link Checker Works
Sitemap Discovery
We fetch your sitemap.xml file to get a complete list of pages on your site. This is more efficient than crawling and ensures we check the pages you care about most.
Efficient HEAD Requests
Instead of downloading entire pages, we use HEAD requests that only check if a URL responds. This uses 95% less bandwidth and is much faster than traditional link checkers.
Status Code Analysis
We categorize each URL by its HTTP status: 200s are working, 300s are redirects (which you may want to update), and 400s/500s are broken links that need fixing.
Shareable Reports
Results are cached for 5 hours and can be shared with your team or developer via a unique link. No account required.
Common Causes of Broken Links
- Deleted or moved pages - Content gets reorganized but old URLs aren't redirected
- Typos in URLs - Manual link entry leads to misspellings that create 404s
- External site changes - Sites you link to remove or rename their pages
- Domain changes - Switching domains without proper redirects breaks all existing links
- CMS updates - URL structure changes during platform migrations
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Our team can audit your entire website and fix all broken links, improving your SEO and user experience.
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