Solve the Case of Broken Links with Xenu
December 11th, 2007 
Baffled by the mystery of broken links? Then hire your own private eye to check it out. Xenu Link Sleuth is available anytime of the day and will accept any web site to investigate⦠for free.
Xenu Link Sleuth is a freeware application designed to check your web site for broken links. It spiders your site to create a comprehensive list of links and it alerts you if any broken ones are found. Finding where the break is also easy as you can sort the list through its multiple columns. It even provides an explanation why the link broke down. Downloaded as a setup file, just a few double clicks and you are ready to launch your private detective. Just key in your URL and wait for the process to be finished. Thanks to its multi-thread feature, the time to map the site is greatly reduced. It took the program just 4 seconds to check-out 45 URLs. The number of threads as well as what to output can be configured for greater speed and efficiency. Once you are done with the spidering, you can save the output as a text file for later evaluation. With Xenu Link Sleuth, cases of broken links are easily closed.
Xenu Link Sleuth is compatible with Win9x/2000/XP.