Free Broken Link Checker
Crawl your website for free and find every broken internal link. Get a per-page health report with source URLs, broken destinations, and HTTP status codes.
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Simple workflow
How to use it
Follow the steps in order, then use the results to make a focused SEO improvement.
Enter your homepage URL
Paste the URL of the site you want to audit. We support any publicly reachable HTTPS domain.
We crawl up to 25 internal pages
Our BFS crawler follows every same-origin internal link it finds and checks the HTTP status of each destination.
Get a report of every broken link
See which pages return 4xx/5xx, where the broken link was found, and the anchor text users clicked on.
Frequently Asked
Questions
Everything you need to know about finding and fixing broken links in 2026.
A broken link is any URL on your site that returns a 4xx or 5xx HTTP status code when requested. Common examples: 404 Not Found, 410 Gone, 500 Internal Server Error. Broken links hurt UX and waste crawl budget.
We start at the URL you provide, fetch the page, extract every same-origin internal link, then check the HTTP status of each destination. The crawler expands BFS-style up to 25 pages or a 6-second budget.
Internal links are the ones you fully control. External links can change at any time without your knowledge, so auditing them produces noisy results. Internal broken links are actionable.
Run it after every major content migration, after redesigning your site, after deleting or renaming pages, and on a monthly cadence for ongoing maintenance.
Yes, completely free with no signup required. You can run up to 5 crawls per hour per IP address. There is no daily cap and no email gate.
Up to 25 pages per crawl, with a 6-second total budget. This is enough to audit a homepage and its top-level sections. For larger sites, use SERPView's dashboard.
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