Nothing erodes trust faster than a visitor clicking a link on your site and landing on a dead page. Broken links also quietly damage your SEO: they waste crawl budget, leak link equity to 404 pages, and signal poor site maintenance to search engines. Links rot over time — sites you linked to move, get deleted or expire — so even a well-maintained site accumulates dead links without regular checks.
Our free Broken Link Checker crawls any page on your site and reports every link that no longer works. Enter a page URL and it fetches the page, collects up to 50 of its links, and tests each one, reporting the exact HTTP status of every failure. You get a clear summary — how many links were checked, how many work and how many are broken — plus a list of each dead link with its status code so you can fix or replace them. No signup, no software to install, and the scan runs from our server, so it works on any device.
💔 Broken Link Checker
Scan any webpage for broken links and see each dead URL with its status code.
Scans up to 50 links found on the page. Large pages may take a minute.
How to use
- Paste the full URL of the page you want to scan.
- Click Check for Broken Links and wait while the scan runs (large pages may take a minute).
- Read the summary: total links checked, working links and broken links.
- Review the broken-links table — each row shows the dead URL and its status code.
- Fix 404s by updating the link or redirecting to a live page; fix 5xx and timeouts by checking the target site.
- Re-run the scan after fixing to confirm the page is clean.
FAQs
What does a 403 or 429 status on a link mean?
The target server refused or rate-limited the check. The link may still work in a real browser — some sites block automated requests. Open it manually; if it loads for you, it is not truly broken.
Why are only 50 links scanned per page?
Each link requires a live HTTP request, and scanning hundreds of links would take several minutes and strain target servers. For full-site audits, scan your most important pages individually — homepage, pillar posts and resource pages first.
Should I fix broken links to external sites or just remove them?
First try to find the page’s new location — sites usually move content rather than delete it. If the content is gone entirely, link to an equivalent resource or remove the link. Deleting without a replacement is fine; leaving a dead link is not.