Scan any website for broken links, dead 404s, and redirect chains in seconds. Our free broken link checker works online — no download, no signup — crawling every internal and external link on your page and reporting its real HTTP status, so you can fix the dead links quietly draining your SEO and frustrating your visitors.
Enter a full page URL. The checker reads every link on that page and tests each one live. Large pages are capped at 150 links per scan.
Crawling the page and testing every link live…
H&U Solutions runs full technical SEO audits — broken links, redirect chains, crawl errors, and site health — then fixes them for you.
Our broken link checker crawls the page you enter, extracts every hyperlink, and tests each one against its live server — reporting exactly which links are broken, redirected, or healthy.
Paste any page from your website — homepage, blog post, or landing page. The checker works on any public URL.
The tool reads the page server-side and extracts every internal and external link, along with its anchor text.
We request every link in parallel and read its real HTTP status code — 200 OK, 301 redirect, 404 not found, and more.
Broken links are surfaced first with a clear reason, so you can update or remove them and protect your SEO.
Every broken link on your website sends visitors — and search engine crawlers — to a dead end. A broken link checker is the fastest way to find those dead ends before they damage your user experience and search rankings. Our free tool tests every link on a page and tells you exactly which ones are broken, so nothing slips through the cracks.
Broken links waste crawl budget, leak the ranking value passed through your internal links, and signal to Google that a page may be poorly maintained. Fixing them is one of the highest-return, lowest-effort technical SEO wins available — and it starts with a reliable way to check for broken links.
Many free tools guess at link health or only check whether a URL is reachable. Our dead link checker makes an actual request to every link and reads the exact status code the server returns — the same signal Google's crawler sees. That means accurate, trustworthy results you can act on, not false alarms.
Every link is labelled internal or external so you know whether the fix is on your site or someone else's.
Links that redirect are flagged separately — useful for cleaning up 301 chains that slow crawlers down.
Some servers block HEAD requests. We retry those with a GET so healthy links aren't wrongly marked broken.
Not every non-200 response is a true dead link. A 404 link checker is most useful when it explains what each code actually means, so you fix the right things. A 301 redirect isn't broken, but a chain of them slows crawlers. A 403 might mean a page is genuinely gone — or that it's blocking automated requests.
Our checker gives every link a plain-English reason alongside its status code, so you can prioritise: fix the 404s and 410s first, tidy up the redirects next, and double-check anything returning a server error. When your links are clean, run the AI Overview Checker to see how AI-ready the page is.
Search engines follow links to discover and rank your pages. When a crawler hits a broken link, it wastes crawl budget and loses the ranking signal that link should have passed along. Over time, link rot — the slow accumulation of dead links as pages move and sites disappear — quietly erodes the authority you've worked to build. Regularly checking for broken links keeps your site healthy and your rankings protected.
Fixing broken internal links redistributes ranking value to pages that still exist instead of leaking it into dead ends.
Clean outbound links keep your content credible with readers and search engines, and fewer 404s means lower bounce rates.
Regular scans catch dead links before they spread. Pair with a clean robots.txt and performance audit for a full foundation.
Plenty of free broken link checkers guess, cache old results, or only test whether a URL loads. Here's how ours compares — and why reading real status codes matters.
| Feature | H&U Broken Link Checker | Typical free checkers | Manual checking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Link status | Real live HTTP status code | Often cached or guessed | Click each one by hand |
| Internal & external | ✓ Both, clearly labelled | Sometimes | ✗ Easy to miss |
| Redirect-aware | ✓ Flags 301/302 chains | Rarely | ✗ No |
| Blocked HEAD requests | ✓ Retries with GET | False "broken" flags | — |
| Plain-English reason | ✓ Every link explained | Status code only | ✗ No |
| Price | ✓ Free, no signup | Often capped / paywalled | Free but slow |
The vocabulary behind the broken link checker — plain-English definitions of the terms that decide whether a link is healthy, dead, or just redirected.
A hyperlink that no longer works — it returns an error (like 404 or 500) instead of a working page, sending visitors and crawlers to a dead end.
The classic broken-link error. The server is reachable but the specific page no longer exists at that URL.
The link still works but points to a URL that forwards elsewhere. Not broken — but long redirect chains slow crawlers and should be tidied.
Several redirects stacked in a row (A→B→C). Each hop wastes crawl budget and a little ranking signal — collapse them to a single hop.
How many URLs Google will crawl on your site in a given window. Broken links and redirect chains waste it on dead ends instead of real pages.
The ranking value passed through a link. A broken internal link leaks that value into nothing instead of strengthening a live page.
The slow build-up of dead links as pages move and external sites disappear. Regular scans keep it from quietly eroding your authority.
A HEAD request asks only for a link's status; a GET fetches the whole page. Some servers block HEAD, so we retry with GET to avoid false "broken" flags.
Everything you need to know about finding and fixing broken links on your website.
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