Broken Link Checker was built out of genuine frustration — hours wasted hunting dead URLs across hundreds of pages, one by one. We decided there had to be a better way, so we built it.
Broken links are the silent killers of SEO. They bleed crawl budget, confuse visitors, and signal to search engines that a site isn't being maintained. Yet for most site owners, finding them is a tedious, manual nightmare.
We set out to build the tool we always wished existed — one that scans your entire site in minutes, surfaces every broken link, missing image, redirect chain, and thin content page, and gives you the exact source line to fix it. No login walls. No credit card. No 10-page limit.
"The best SEO tool is the one you'll actually use. So we made ours completely free."
That philosophy shapes every decision we make. Free doesn't mean limited — it means accessible to the indie blogger, the solo developer, the small business owner, and the enterprise SEO team alike.
We talk to SEOs, developers, bloggers, and business owners constantly. Every feature on this tool has been shaped by someone who had a real problem to solve.
We don't collect, store, or sell your data. URLs you scan stay on your device. We log aggregate usage statistics only, and we never use them for advertising.
We ship improvements weekly based on user feedback. Found a bug? Have a feature idea? We read every message sent to our inbox and genuinely act on them.
Enterprise crawlers charge hundreds of dollars per month for features most people don't need. Free tiers cap you at 50–100 pages — barely enough to audit a small blog. We refused to accept that as the standard.
Studies consistently show that broken links directly harm organic rankings, increase bounce rate, and erode visitor trust. Every week a broken link sits unfixed is SEO equity and potential revenue silently bleeding away.
Other tools tell you a link is broken but not where it lives in your code. Our Source Viewer shows you the exact HTML line — highlighted — so you spend seconds fixing, not minutes hunting.
We sustain this project without charging users or showing ads. We built something we're proud of and that serves a genuine need. The tool succeeds when your website does.
These aren't aspirational values — they're the real constraints we apply when building new features and making product decisions.
No hidden limits, no forced sign-up, no credit card for a "trial." 1,500 pages, unlimited scans, forever. When we say free, we mean it without asterisks.
Our parallel checker verifies links in real-time batches rather than one-by-one. Faster results mean you spend less time waiting and more time fixing actual problems.
Any tool can tell you a link is broken. We show you where it lives in your source code, highlighted, on the line. That's the difference between information and a solution.
We don't store URLs you scan, results you see, or sites you audit. Your website's link structure is your business, not ours. Full stop.
A beginner blogger and a senior SEO consultant should both find the tool immediately useful. We don't hide power behind jargon, and we don't over-simplify for experts.
Every feature on this page was requested or shaped by a user. We don't roadmap in isolation. If you email us with an idea or bug, a human reads it and we act on the good ones.
Our crawler starts at your homepage and follows every internal link it discovers, building a queue of pages to visit. For each page, it extracts all link types — <a href>, <img src>, <link href>, <script src>, and Open Graph meta URLs.
Links are verified in parallel batches using HEAD requests first, falling back to GET if the server doesn't honour HEAD. A 50ms inter-request delay keeps server load polite while maintaining speed. Results stream to your dashboard in real time so you can start reviewing before the scan completes.
The tool sends a real browser User-Agent to avoid being blocked by servers that reject bots, giving you a more accurate picture of what your users and Googlebot actually experience.
Spotted a bug, have a feature request, or just want to say hello? We're a small team and we read every message personally.