Free Broken Link Checker

Paste the page URL into the scan box above and press Scan. The checker tests every link on that page and shows the broken ones in seconds. For a single link, you can also open it in your browser. If you see a 404 error or an empty page, the link is broken.

Run a full site scan, then open each flagged link in your browser to confirm it fails. The report shows the status code, the source page and the anchor text for every dead link. That makes it easy to check for broken links on your website and prove each one before you fix it.

Yes. Our free broken link checker covers 250 pages per scan with no account and no install. Free accounts get 50 scans a month. Paid plans add scheduled re-scans, email alerts and AI link fixes. Most small sites never need more than the free plan.

A dead link checker is another name for a broken link checker. Some people also call these tools a 404 checker. They all do the same job. They scan a site, test every link and find broken links before your visitors do.

Open the source page listed in the report and edit the link. Point it to a working page, update the URL, or remove the link. For pages that moved, add a 301 redirect, a signpost that sends visitors to the new address. WordPress users can fix broken links from the plugin without opening each post.

Yes. Broken links waste crawl budget, leak link value between your pages and push visitors away. Search engines read a site full of dead links as poorly maintained. Fixing them restores the flow of value and makes every crawl count. It is one of the fastest SEO wins on most sites.

The free scan covers 250 pages per site with no account and no signup. Free accounts get 50 scans a month. Most small business sites fit comfortably inside the free limit. Paid plans add more scans, scheduled re-scans and email alerts.

Yes. Every outbound link on every crawled page gets tested. That includes links to other websites, images, scripts and documents. External dead links are reported separately from internal ones. So you can fix your own pages first and deal with other sites later.

A soft 404 is a page that returns a 200 success code but shows an error message like "page not found". Search engines flag these pages as low quality. The checker finds them by reading the page content, not just the status code.

Yes, in three ways. Fixed links restore the flow of link value between your pages. Your crawl budget stops being wasted on dead URLs. And visitors stop hitting error pages, so fewer of them leave, a signal search engines watch.

Install the Broken Link Checker plugin, run a scan, and edit or unlink each broken link from the report inside wp-admin, with no post-by-post hunting. The plugin lists the exact post and anchor text for every dead link, so each fix takes seconds.

Yes. The web scanner checks any Shopify store today, free for 250 pages. A dedicated Shopify app is in development. It will scan products, collections, pages and blog posts from inside your admin, catching discontinued product URLs that still get traffic.

Monthly for most sites, weekly if you publish often or link out heavily. Links rot fast. Pew Research found that about 8% of pages only one year old were already dead. Even a site you never touch collects broken links. Pro plans automate this with scheduled scans.