Free Broken Link Checker
Scan any page for broken and redirected links before your visitors — or Google — find them first. Enter a URL and we'll check every link on it.
Free · No signup required · Checks up to 40 links per page
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What Is a Broken Link Checker?
A broken link checker scans a webpage for links that may lead to unavailable or invalid destinations and helps identify URLs that need attention. Our tool checks every internal link (to your own site) and external link (to other websites) on the page you enter, following each one to see its real HTTP status code. That's how it tells the difference between a healthy link, a 404 error or other dead link, and a link that still works but sends visitors through a redirected URL first.
How to Check for Broken Links
Enter your website URL.
Start the scan.
Review the links we discovered on the page.
Identify links returning errors or unexpected responses.
Fix, replace, or remove the problematic links.
Run the check again to confirm.
What Our Broken Link Checker Checks
Dead links hurt both user experience and site maintenance — here's exactly what we check for.
Internal Links
Every link pointing to another page on your own site.
External Links
Every link pointing out to another website.
HTTP Status Codes
The real, live response code each link actually returns — not just whether it's present in the page.
404 Responses
Links pointing to pages that no longer exist.
3xx Redirects
Links that still work but send visitors through a redirect first, shown separately with their destination.
Failed Requests
Links that time out, fail to connect, or return a server error (5xx).
Why Broken Links Matter for SEO
User Experience
Broken links create dead ends for visitors, right when they're trying to get somewhere specific.
Website Maintenance
They make it harder to maintain a clean website, and tend to accumulate quietly over time.
Crawling
Large websites with many problematic links can create unnecessary crawl and maintenance issues.
Lost Conversions
A broken link to an important page, product, or form can directly interrupt a user's journey.
How to Fix Broken Links
The right fix depends on why the link is broken.
URL Moved Permanently
Update the link to the new URL, or put an appropriate redirect in place.
Page Intentionally Removed
Remove the link, or replace it with a relevant alternative page.
External Page Unavailable
Find a reliable alternative source, or remove the reference entirely.
Typo in the URL
Correct the URL — a surprisingly common cause of an otherwise-avoidable broken link.
Redirect Chain
Update the link to point directly at the final destination where appropriate — check it with our Redirect Chain Checker.
Broken Link vs. Redirect
Related, but not the same thing.
Broken Link
The destination cannot be successfully reached — a 404, a server error, or a failed request.
Redirect
The URL still works — it just sends the visitor or crawler somewhere else first.
Want to see exactly where a redirect leads, and how many hops it takes? Use our Redirect Chain Checker.
Need a Complete Technical SEO Audit?
If your website has hundreds of broken links or broader technical issues, Zelthra can audit and implement technical SEO improvements site-wide.
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Try It FreeFrequently Asked Questions
Yes. There's no signup, no email required, and no limit on how many pages you can check.
It checks the links found on the single page you submit. For a full-site crawl covering every page, our team can run a complete link audit as part of a website review.
Up to 40 links per page in a single run. If a page has more, we check the first 40 and let you know the page had more links than that.
Any link that returns a 404 (not found), a 5xx server error, or fails to load at all. Redirected links (3xx responses) are shown separately since they still work, just not directly.
Redirects still load the destination page but add extra load time and can lose some SEO value compared to linking directly. Worth fixing where possible, but not urgent like a broken link.
No. We fetch the page, check its links, and don't save the URL or results anywhere.
Want a Full Site-Wide Link Audit?
Broken links hurt user experience and make your site harder to maintain. Our team can run a complete link audit across your entire website and fix what's broken.