Warning: broken links are dangerous to your website’s health
October 2nd, 2007
Sometimes your web site grows so fast that you’ve lost track of the simplest things, including its links. If you want to check whether all your links are working, you can click on every single one of them for testing. If you’re running a big website with over 20 pages, you better clear a few hours of your time for that.
Or you could just use Dead Links.
Dead Links is a free online tool that makes it easier for web masters to check for broken links within their site, whether these links point to other pages within the site, or to other domains altogether. All you have to do is enter your site URL into a text box, and the Dead Links spider will crawl your site. You’ll get a full report within a few minutes.
As a free tool, Dead Links can only crawl up to 25 pages per domain and 150 external documents. However, if the spider finds a link to the Dead Links homepage, the page limit extends to 150, and the external document limit upgrades to 500.
If you need to understand the results or if Dead Links doesn’t work for you, you simply go to the FAQ page to find out more. The explanations are very brief and easy to understand. The tool page is straightforward, making it usable even for novice web masters.
Dead Links works on most browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera.