Top 10 Free Online Broken Link Checkers

Broken link, or dead link, is a link that points to a non-existent web page, which happened when the original web page is deleted or its website is closed.

Obviously, broken links will give your readers a bad impression, and what is more, they will also harm your website’s search engine ranking, which will be affected by the quality of your internal and external links.

To find out if there are any broken links on your website, you can use below 10 free online broken link checkers, which are easy to be used, and without any registration or downloading.

1. Link Valet

Enter the URL of your website, then Link Valet will check all the links on the homepage of the website, and show you a detailed report which highlights the broken and redirected links.

Besides, Link Valet will also check the links of those web pages which URLs appear on the homepage.

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2. Link Valet Online

Link Valet Online is nearly the same as Link Valet, though they are two different free online broken link checkers.

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3. It-india Broken Link Checker

It-india Broken Link Checker is like a spider and will crawl your website of the URL you enter.

The summary of dead links will be displayed at the bottom of the report page.

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4. W3C Link Checker

W3C Link Checker will detect links and anchors on the web page of the URL you enter.

Besides broken links, it will also show those links that are restricted by the robot file if any.

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5. iWebTool Broken Link Checker

iWebTool Broken Link Checker will check all the links on the web page of the URL you enter and show you if they are broken or not.

Clicking on any link, you will see a new check report of its web page.

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6. Indiabook Free Link Checker

Enter the URL of any web page, and then the Indiabook’s tool Free Link Checker will check all the links on the web page and show you if they are OK or broken.

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7. Anybrowser Link Checker

Like most of those free online broken link checkers, Anybrowser Link Checker will show you if all the links on the web page of the URL you enter are workable or dead.

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8. SubmitExpress Link Checker

Enter your web page URL, then SubmitExpress Link Checker will show you if those links on the web page are good or broken.

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9. Site Link Analyzer

Enter the URL of any web page, click the Analyse URL button, then Site Link Analyzer will show you if any links on the web page are OK, redirected, or broken.

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10. Broken Link Checker

Broken Link Checker is a WordPress plugin, which will check your whole blog and show you a detailed report with how many links are checked, how many links are redirected, and how many links are broken, what is more, you can edit those broken and directed links on the report page directly.

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As a WordPress user, my favorite free online broken link checker is the Broken Link Checker plugin, since it is easy to edit those broken links . How about you? Which one is your favorite? Or do you have any other free online broken link checkers? Share with us by adding a comment.

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