Broken Link Checker

Broken Link Checker — Scan a Page for Dead Links

Enter the address of a web page and the tool fetches it, finds the links on it, and tests each one to see whether it still works. It's a quick way to catch dead links that frustrate visitors and waste the attention of search engines.

How to Check a Page for Broken Links

Type or paste the page URL — the https:// is added for you if you leave it off — and click Check links. You'll see how many unique links were found and how many were checked, followed by a summary of how many are working, how many redirect, and how many are broken. The table below lists every checked link with a coloured status badge, the HTTP status code, and the full address, so you can go straight to the ones that need fixing.

What Gets Checked

The tool looks at the links in the page's HTML, turns relative links into full addresses, and ignores anchors within the page and mailto:, tel:, and javascript: links. Each link is tested with a lightweight request, and links that redirect are followed for up to five hops and judged by where they end up. A response in the 200s is shown as working, a 300s response as a redirect, and an error code such as 404 or 500, or no response at all, as broken. To keep the tool fast for everyone, it checks up to 40 unique links per run and tells you when there were more, and each link gets a few seconds to answer. It checks the links on the single page you enter, not your whole site, and it doesn't check images, scripts, or stylesheets.

Some broken results aren't broken for real: a site may block automated checks or be down for a moment, so re-test any surprising ones in your browser before you change anything. Pages that build their links with JavaScript after loading won't show all of them, because the tool reads the page's HTML as the server sends it.

Good Uses for This Tool

Auditing a landing page or blog post before launch, checking an old resources or links page, finding outdated references after a site migration, and keeping a page tidy for SEO and visitors.

What Happens to the URL You Enter?

Unlike most tools on this site, this one runs on our server: the page address you enter is sent there so it can fetch the page and test each link, which a browser can't do for other websites. The address you enter must be a public website — private and internal addresses are refused — and the results are shown on the page for you to read.