Find broken (404, 500, timeout) links on any page in seconds. The tool fetches each link with a 5-second timeout and reports its HTTP status — ideal for cleaning up old blog posts and resource lists.
Broken links hurt three things: user experience (visitors hit dead ends), SEO (Google reads broken outbound links as a signal of stale content), and conversions (a 404 in your checkout flow loses sales). Manual checks of long pages are tedious; this tool automates the first 30 links so you can spot the worst offenders fast.
Enter the URL of the page you want to scan. The tool fetches it through a CORS-friendly proxy, extracts the first 30 unique links, and probes each one with an HTTP request. Each result shows a green badge for 200-OK, an orange for 3xx, and a red badge for 4xx, 5xx or unreachable links.
Run it on every old blog post during a quarterly content audit, after migrating a website, after rebranding (your old URLs may have moved), and on resource pages that link to many third-party sites — those decay fastest. Site-wide scans are best done with a desktop crawler like Screaming Frog.
Broken external links are best fixed by either updating to the new URL (use the Wayback Machine to find the original target) or removing the link entirely. Broken internal links should redirect with a 301 to the closest equivalent page. For affiliate links, 404s often mean the merchant changed their URL structure — switch to a deep link or remove the recommendation.
Browser-based scanning is rate-limited. For full site audits use a dedicated crawler like Screaming Frog, Sitebulb or Ahrefs Site Audit.
Some servers block automated requests with 403 Forbidden. Open the link manually to confirm; if it works in your browser, it's fine.
Quarterly for healthy sites, monthly for sites with heavy outbound linking (resource lists, blogs about software), immediately after any URL migration.
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