Free Broken Link Checker
Find & Fix 404 Errors Instantly
A single broken link can silently drain your SEO authority and frustrate real visitors. Scan any page in seconds, find every dead link, and fix them before Google finds them first.
Scan Your Page for Broken Links Free
Enter any URL below and we’ll scan every link on that page and show you exactly which ones are broken, redirected, or returning errors.
What Are Broken Links and How Are They Quietly Hurting Your Website Right Now?
A broken link is any link on your website that leads to a page that no longer exists returning a 404 error instead of live content. They happen constantly and naturally: you delete a page, a plugin changes a URL, an external website goes offline, or you restructure your site without updating old internal links. The result is a dead end for your visitors and for Google.
From a user experience perspective, broken links are frustrating. A visitor clicks a link expecting useful content and hits a 404 error page instead. They leave. That exit signal tells Google your website isn’t well maintained and that affects your credibility and rankings over time.
From an SEO perspective, broken links have two damaging effects. First, they waste your crawl budget the number of pages Google will crawl on your site in a given time period. Every broken link Google follows is a wasted crawl request that could have been spent on your real, valuable pages. Second, they break your internal link equity the authority that flows through your site via links. A broken internal link means that PageRank stops flowing, and the destination page misses out on the authority it was meant to receive.
In 2026, with Google’s crawling and indexing systems more sophisticated than ever, technical SEO hygiene matters more not less. Regular broken link checks are one of the simplest, highest-impact maintenance tasks you can do. Run a scan, fix what’s broken, and keep your link structure healthy. Pair this with ourRobots.txt Checker to make sure you’re not accidentally blocking Google from your most important pages.
Full Page Link Scan
We check every link on your page internal links to your own content and external links to other websites and report the HTTP status of each one instantly.
404 Error Detection
404s are the most common broken link type and the most damaging. Our checker flags every single one so you can fix or redirect them before they cost you rankings or visitors.
Redirect Chain Detection
Redirect chains where one URL redirects to another, which redirects again slow your site and dilute link equity. We surface these so you can clean them up properly.
Exportable Results
Get a clean, organized list of all broken and problematic links found on your page, easy to share with your developer or work through yourself page by page.
After fixing your broken links, make sure Google can actually reach all your important pages by validating your Robots.txt file. And if you want to add structured data to your newly cleaned pages, our Schema Markup Generator makes it a 30-second job.