Broken Link Checker

A broken link checker opens a web page and tests every link on it to see whether it still leads somewhere. Links that answer with an error such as 404 Not found, 410 Gone or a server error are broken. This one also checks every image, follows redirects to their end, and marks sites that block robots separately.

Paste the page address into the box above and press Check my links. We open the page, read every link and image, and test up to 150 of them at once. Broken ones come first, each with its link text, status code and where it sits on the page, so you can find and fix it quickly.

Yes. It is free with no signup, no email and no captcha. Each visitor gets 25 page checks a day, and each check covers up to 150 different links and images. Checking the same page again within 10 minutes shows the saved result.

Not directly. Google says a page returning 404 “does not hurt you or count against you” in its search results. The real cost is visitors who hit a dead end and internal links that lead Google nowhere. Search Console Help recommends fixing the 404 errors you link to yourself or list in a sitemap.

A 404 means the server found no page at that address. The page may have been deleted, moved without a redirect, or the link may have a typo. Fix it by pointing the link at the right page, or by adding a 301 redirect from the old address to the new one if the page moved.

Both say the page is not there. A 410 Gone adds that it was removed on purpose and is likely gone for good. Google’s documentation treats all 4xx answers, except 429, the same way, so for search the two behave alike. This tool marks both as broken.

Some sites refuse automated checks while working fine for people. A 403 Forbidden, a 429 Too many requests or LinkedIn’s non-standard 999 usually means a firewall blocked our server, not that the page is gone. We mark these Blocked by the site and never count them as broken. Open them yourself to be sure.

Yes. Every image on the page is opened as well. Links that redirect are followed for up to five steps: if the last step loads a page it counts as a redirect, and if it ends on an error it counts as broken. Internal links that redirect are flagged so you can link straight to the final address.

It checks one page per run, which is usually what you need after publishing or editing a page. For every page at once, Google Search Console’s Page indexing report lists the 404s Google found in the past month, or use a site crawler. Check your most important pages here first.

Check a page whenever you publish or change it, and your key pages about once a month. Links break on their own: Pew Research Center found 38% of webpages from 2013 were no longer available in 2023. Google suggests looking at Search Console around once a month too.