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Broken Link Checker Find every dead link and image on your site

Broken links frustrate visitors, waste crawl budget and leak ranking power. We crawl your website like Googlebot, test every internal link, external link and image, and hand you a fix list with the exact page and anchor text for each one.
  • 500pages per scan
  • 2,500links & images tested
  • 12report sections
  • CSV+ XML sitemap export
How to use it

Find and fix broken links in three steps

  1. 1

    Enter your website

    Type your home page (or any section), choose how many pages to scan and whether to test external links and images.
  2. 2

    Watch the crawl

    We follow every link like a search engine does, then test each link and image we found. A 250-page site usually takes two to four minutes.
  3. 3

    Fix and re-check

    Open Broken links to see each dead URL, the pages that link to it and the anchor text. Download the CSV for your developer, fix the links, then scan again.
What the report covers

Everything a site crawler should tell you

The broken-link list is just the start. Every scan also produces a full technical picture of your site.
01

Broken links & images

Every internal link, external link and image that returns 4xx, 5xx, a DNS failure, a timeout or an SSL error — with source pages and anchor text.
02

Redirects & chains

Internal links that point to redirects, redirect chains with more than one hop, and pages that redirect to other sites.
03

Skipped pages

Pages blocked by robots.txt, noindex pages, canonicalised pages, non-HTML files and anything beyond your page limit.
04

Duplicate content

Duplicate, common and unique content for the whole site and every page, with the pages that repeat each other.
05

Page power & click depth

How internal links distribute authority across your pages, how many clicks each page sits from the home page, and orphan pages.
06

On-page issues

Missing and duplicate titles and meta descriptions, H1 problems, thin pages, slow or heavy pages, mixed content and images without alt text.
Fixing broken links

Six ways to keep your links healthy

Most broken links come from a handful of causes. Fix the pattern, not just the link.
01

Redirect old URLs

When you move or delete a page, add a 301 redirect to the closest live page so existing links and rankings carry over.
02

Update internal links

Change internal links to point straight at the final URL instead of relying on redirects — it is faster for visitors and crawlers.
03

Fix the template once

A broken link in the menu or footer appears on every page. Fixing it in the template clears hundreds of errors at once.
04

Replace dead external links

Swap broken outbound links for an up-to-date source, an archived copy, or remove them if they no longer add value.
05

Watch your images

Missing images look broken to visitors. Re-upload them, update the path or remove the tag, and keep file names free of spaces.
06

Scan every month

Sites change constantly. A monthly scan catches new broken links before your visitors — or Google — do.
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Free detailed SEO audit report

Want us to fix them for you?

An XcodeFix SEO specialist will review your whole website — broken links, redirects, technical health, content and AI visibility — and email you a detailed audit report with a prioritised fix list.
Free · No obligation
Your free detailed SEO audit report
  • Technical SEO & Core Web Vitals review
  • On-page content & keyword gap analysis
  • AI search visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity
  • Backlink & local SEO health check
  • Prioritised fix list from an SEO specialist
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FAQ

Broken Link Checker FAQ

Still curious? Ask our SEO team through the free audit form.
What is a broken link checker?
A broken link checker crawls your website the way a search engine does, follows every link and image it finds, and reports the ones that return an error such as 404 Not Found or 500 Server Error — together with the page and anchor text where each broken link appears, so you can fix it in minutes.
Do broken links hurt SEO?
Yes, indirectly. Broken internal links waste crawl budget, stop link equity flowing to important pages and leave visitors at dead ends, which hurts engagement and conversions. Broken external links make content look neglected. Fixing them is one of the quickest technical SEO wins.
How many pages does the free checker scan?
Up to 500 pages per scan — choose 100, 250 or 500. We check every internal link, every image and, if you leave the option on, every external link we find on those pages (up to 2,500 unique URLs per scan).
Why are some links marked “could not verify”?
Sites such as LinkedIn, Instagram and many Cloudflare-protected websites block automated requests and answer with 403, 429 or 999 even when the page works in a browser. We list them separately so they never inflate your broken-link count — open them by hand to confirm.
What is the difference between a broken link and a redirect?
A broken link ends in an error page. A redirected link still works but makes visitors and crawlers take an extra hop (for example 301 Moved Permanently). The report lists internal links that point to redirects so you can update them to the final URL.
Does the crawler respect robots.txt?
Yes. Pages your robots.txt disallows are skipped and listed in the report, and we crawl politely with a limited number of parallel requests so your server is never overloaded.
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