Broken Link Checker

A broken link, also called a dead link, points to a destination that no longer answers with a working page. The most common cause is a 404 Not Found from a deleted or moved page, but expired domains, removed pages (410 Gone) and dead TLS configurations break links too. To a visitor they all look the same: a click that leads nowhere.

Paste the page URL into the checker above. It fetches the page HTML, extracts every link (up to 200 unique targets), requests each one and classifies the result: Broken only on strong evidence like 404, 410 or a dead domain, and separate labels for blocked, transient and ambiguous responses. Every result shows the request method, redirect hops and timing, and the scan reports exactly how many links it examined, checked and skipped.

Because a 403 from an automated checker usually means bot blocking, not a missing page. This checker identifies itself honestly as DevDomeLinkChecker instead of impersonating a browser, and some sites refuse identified bots while serving people normally. Counting those as broken would send you off to fix links that work. They get their own Blocked label with instructions to verify in a browser.

A 404 Not Found says the page is not at that address right now, with no promise about the future. A 410 Gone says the page was removed deliberately and permanently, and search engines drop 410 pages from the index faster. For your links the fix is similar, update or remove, but a 410 tells you not to wait for the page to come back.

Indirectly, yes. A few broken links will not tank rankings on their own, but they waste crawl budget, leak link equity into dead ends, and degrade the user signals search engines do measure, like visitors bouncing after a 404. On large sites, hundreds of broken internal links also make crawlers less efficient at discovering your real content.

Each link gets a HEAD request first, retried as a GET when the server rejects HEAD (400, 403, 405 or 501), with redirects followed up to 3 hops and every hop revalidated. The user agent identifies itself as DevDomeLinkChecker with a link back to this page. Every result row shows which method produced it, how many redirect hops were followed, and how long the request took.

The page URL you submit is fetched once, its links are requested once, and the results are returned to your browser. Results are not stored, shared or sent to analytics. Avoid submitting URLs that contain secrets such as password-reset tokens: any URL you check is, by definition, requested by our server.

Links rot constantly: pages get deleted, domains expire, sites restructure. A manual pass with a 404 checker like this one is great before publishing and for occasional audits. For everything you cannot recheck by hand, use continuous monitoring. DevDome Site Health watches your whole site on a schedule and flags broken links before a visitor finds them.