If you manage a website, blog, or a web app, you already know the drill: Dead links are a nightmare.
From an SEO perspective, a 404 error tells Google’s crawler that your site is poorly maintained. It wastes your crawl budget, ruins the user experience, and spikes your bounce rate. Before you know it, you're dropping ranks.
But here is what really annoyed me:
When I wanted to do a quick scan of my site to find broken internal and external links, almost every tool out there wanted me to:
- Create an account
- Pay a $10 - $30/mo subscription
- Deal with ridiculous rate limits
- Or install a heavy, bloated desktop crawler
These are basic utility tasks. We shouldn't be paying premium SaaS prices just to check HTTP status codes.
Scratching the Itch
I got tired of hitting paywalls for simple utilities, so I decided to build a platform to house them all.
Meet the Free Advanced Broken Link Checker.
It’s part of a larger project I’m working on called FreeClientToolbox (which currently hosts over 200+ free dev, SEO, and PDF tools).
What makes it different?
I built this specifically for developers, SEO pros, and webmasters who just want a fast, no-nonsense scanner without the friction.
- Deep Scanning: It crawls and checks both internal links and outbound external links on any webpage instantly.
- Exact Diagnostics: It doesn't just say "broken." It gives you the precise HTTP status code for every dead link (
404 Not Found,500 Internal Error,Timeouts). - Privacy First: It runs almost entirely in your browser. No shady servers keeping logs of your site's architecture.
- Zero Friction: Absolutely no sign-ups, no hidden paywalls, and 100% free. ### How to use it?
- Go to the Broken Link Checker.
- Drop in your URL.
- Let it scan and export your 404s. Stop letting broken backlinks waste your link equity. If you are a webmaster or a dev, I’d love for you to try it out and give me your brutal feedback. What features would you like to see added? Drop a comment below! 👇
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