Broken links hurt user trust and SEO — search engines treat 404-heavy pages as low-quality and reduce their crawl budget. This checker fetches any URL server-side, extracts every <a href> link, and probes each one to report the HTTP status. Dead links, redirects and timeouts are flagged so you can fix or remove them before they cost you rankings. Useful for blog audits, post-migration checks, and quarterly site-health reviews.
How to use Broken Link Checker
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Enter the target
Type or paste the target you want to inspect into the input field at the top of the page.
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Run the Check
Click the check button — the tool queries live data sources and returns results in seconds.
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Read the Report
Review each finding: status, score, and the reason behind every warning are listed line by line.
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Act on the Findings
Follow the linked remediation guides to fix issues, or copy the report to share with your team.
Why Use Broken Link Checker
When something in your stack misbehaves, half the battle is figuring out whether the problem is you, the network, or the other side. Broken Link Checker gives you a fast, opinionated readout so you can rule things in and out in seconds. Because the check runs on live infrastructure and reports raw results — not marketing-safe summaries — you can trust what you see and act on it. Toolzer's design philosophy is simple: privacy-first (no tracking, no accounts), performance-first (the page is interactive in under a second on a 3G connection), and honesty-first (no fake ratings, no dark patterns, no upsells). Broken Link Checker follows the same rules as every other utility on the site. You can bookmark this page, share the URL with a colleague, or pin it to your browser's toolbar — the experience will be identical every visit, and it will keep working even if you're on airplane Wi-Fi. Real people use this tool for real work — freelancers cleaning up client deliverables, sysadmins triaging tickets, students finishing assignments — and it is tuned for those workflows, not for demo videos.
Tips & Best Practices
1Run the check from more than one network (mobile hotspot vs office) to distinguish a real outage from a local DNS issue.
2Save the full report with a timestamp — it is invaluable evidence when opening a support ticket with a provider.
3Re-run the check after every fix so you have a clean 'before / after' record.
4Cross-reference results with a second, independent tool when the stakes are high — no single source is perfect.
5If the check surfaces a warning you don't understand, read the linked docs before applying a 'fix' someone suggested online.
Common Use Cases
1Auditing a new landing page before launch to confirm titles, descriptions, and tags render the way you expect.
2Reviewing a competitor's page to understand how they structure their on-page SEO signals.
3Debugging why a page isn't ranking, isn't being indexed, or is showing the wrong preview on social media.
4Producing a quick SEO snapshot for a client proposal or monthly report.
5Verifying that a developer handoff (meta tags, robots rules, sitemap entries) shipped correctly to production.
Frequently asked questions
How many links does it check?
Up to 60 unique links per page to keep the response time reasonable. Run it page by page for large sites.
Why does a link show 403 but works in my browser?
Some servers block HEAD requests or non-browser user agents. The tool falls back to GET for 403/405, but a hardened WAF can still refuse. Open the link manually to confirm.
Does this follow redirects?
Yes. The reported status is the final destination's status after redirects.
Can I scan login-protected pages?
No. The crawler is unauthenticated. For private pages, run a local crawler with your session cookies.
Do I need to create an account to use Toolzer?
No. Every utility on Toolzer is free, anonymous, and works in any modern browser without registration.
Is Toolzer safe to use with sensitive inputs?
Yes. Whenever the tool can produce an answer entirely in the browser, the data never leaves your device.
Does Toolzer work on mobile?
Yes. The interface is fully responsive and works on iOS Safari, Android Chrome, and every modern mobile browser.
Can I link to or bookmark a result?
Yes. Every Toolzer page has a clean permanent URL you can bookmark or share.