Free Online Broken Link Checker
A broken link checker extracts the outbound links from a page and tests each destination from our server, flagging any that return a 404 or fail to respond.
This tool uses AI and sends your text to a secure API for processing. No data is stored after your session.
How to Use This Tool
- Enter the URL of the page whose links you want to audit.
- Press Check — our server fetches the page and extracts its outbound links.
- Each destination is tested and shown with its status code in the results table.
- Focus on rows flagged broken (4xx, 5xx or a failed request shown as status 0).
- Fix or remove the broken targets, then re-run to confirm the count drops to zero.
What Is a Broken Link Checker?
Broken links are URLs that no longer resolve — they return a 4xx or 5xx status, or fail entirely. They frustrate visitors, waste crawl budget when search engines repeatedly hit dead targets, and signal that a page is poorly maintained. The status codes are defined by HTTP semantics in RFC 9110, where 404 Not Found and 410 Gone mark missing resources and 5xx codes mark server failures.
We fetch the page on our server, parse out its anchor links, and test up to 40 unique destinations, preferring a lightweight HEAD request and falling back to GET when a server rejects HEAD. Running this server-side is essential: browsers block cross-origin requests, so client-side JavaScript cannot legally fetch and test links on other domains. Anchors, mailto:, tel: and javascript: links are skipped because they have no remote target.
This is built for auditing a single important page — a key landing page, a cornerstone article — rather than crawling an entire site, which needs a dedicated crawler.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many links does it check?
What counts as broken?
Why are some links skipped?
Published by the WeGotEveryTool team. We build and test every tool in-house and update pages when the underlying spec, formula, or recommendation changes.
Reviewed: May 2026. Disclaimer: this tool is provided as-is for general informational use. For decisions with material consequences (medical, legal, financial, security) verify results against a qualified professional source.
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