Broken Link Checker
Scan for dead links and 404 errors on any webpage. Keep your site healthy by fixing broken outgoing and internal links.*Free tier scans the first 50 links found on the page.
Free Broken Link Checker
Dead links frustrate users, waste crawl budget, and signal to search engines that your site is unmaintained. Our free checker scans up to 50 links per page concurrently, exposing every 404 and server error in seconds.
Why Free Broken Link Checking is Essential
Crawl Budget Killer
Every 404 Googlebot hits is a dead end. On sites with thousands of pages, broken links mean search engines spend their entire crawl budget on error pages instead of discovering new, valuable content.
Link Equity Drain
Internal links are how PageRank flows through your site. A broken internal link severs that flow entirely — authority that should be boosting your product pages disappears into a void.
User Trust Destroyer
Nothing erodes reader trust faster than clicking a recommended resource only to hit a 404 page. High bounce rates from dead links send negative engagement signals directly to Google's ranking algorithm.
How the Free Broken Link Checker Works
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Enter the Page URL
Paste the URL of any webpage you want to audit. Our server fetches the HTML and extracts every anchor tag with an href attribute, de-duplicating URLs and filtering out mailto, javascript, and fragment-only links.
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URL Resolution
Relative URLs (like /about or ../images/logo.png) are resolved against the page's base URL so every link is converted to a fully qualified absolute URL before checking.
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Concurrent HEAD Requests
We fire up to 50 concurrent HTTP HEAD requests — lightweight requests that check availability without downloading full page bodies. This delivers results in seconds rather than minutes.
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Color-Coded Status Report
Results are displayed in a table with green badges for successful 200s, red badges for 404s and 5xx errors, and yellow badges for 403/405 responses that may indicate bot blocking rather than true breakage.
Fixing Broken Links: Your Action Plan
Once our free checker surfaces the dead links on a page, you have three options. For internal broken links, implement a 301 redirect from the dead URL to the most relevant live alternative — this instantly heals all links pointing to it across your entire site. For broken external links, either find a live alternative resource and update your anchor, or remove the link entirely if no suitable replacement exists. For timeout errors, check whether the site is temporarily down or permanently gone before deciding.
Internal vs External: Which to Fix First
Internal broken links are your highest priority because they directly impact PageRank flow and user journeys within your own domain. Run your most trafficked pages — homepage, top landing pages, high-authority blog posts — through our free tool first. External links should be audited on a regular schedule, as third-party sites remove and restructure content constantly. A link that worked last month may be a 404 today.
403 and 405 Responses: Not Always Broken
Some servers return 403 Forbidden or 405 Method Not Allowed specifically in response to HEAD requests from bots — yet serve the page perfectly to actual browser users. Our tool marks these as warnings rather than confirmed errors. If you see a 403 or 405 on a link you know is functional in a browser, it simply means that server is rejecting our bot-style request. The link itself is not broken for human visitors.