Broken Link Checker
Follow the links on a page and report which ones are broken, redirected or slow.
About this tool
Fetches a page, finds its links, and requests each one to see what actually answers.
The limit is stated up front: the first 40 links are checked. Following every link on a large page means dozens of requests to other people's servers from a single form submission, and a report claiming "no broken links" after checking a third of them would be worse than no report at all.
Watch for the ones that redirect rather than the ones that 404. A 404 is obvious and someone will report it. A link that quietly redirects to a homepage has been silently broken for years, and nobody notices because it still goes somewhere.
Common questions
Why only 40 links?
Because each one is a request to somebody else's server, and a page with 300 links would mean 300 requests from one form submission. A partial check reported as complete would be worse than not checking.
Do broken links hurt rankings?
A few do essentially nothing. What they do is waste crawl budget and signal a site nobody maintains. The real cost is a visitor who hits a dead end and leaves.
Why does a link work in my browser but fail here?
Some sites block anything that is not a browser, so they answer 403 to any automated request. That is a false positive here, not a broken link — open it yourself to confirm.
Should I worry about redirects more than 404s?
Often, yes. A 404 gets noticed and reported. A link that redirects to a homepage still "works", so it can stay broken for years while sending everyone to the wrong place.