Check a website for broken links
Broken links hurt both visitors and search rankings — and they pile up unnoticed on client sites. Pingvera crawls the links on a page in one click and shows which lead nowhere, plus availability, SSL and domain expiry. No sign-up.
We check availability, SSL and domain expiry. Results are cached for 10 minutes.
What we check
The check crawls the links on the page you submit — both internal links to other pages on the site and external links to other domains — and looks at what each destination returns: a working page, a 404, a redirect to nowhere, or a timeout.
Why broken links hurt more than they look
For a visitor, a broken link is a dead end: they expected information or a path to checkout and got an error instead — most just leave. For a search engine's crawler, it's a signal of low page quality that adds up over time: crawl budget gets spent following links to pages that no longer exist instead of finding and indexing the content that actually matters.
Why they pile up unnoticed
Broken links rarely appear all at once — they build up one at a time: a promotion page gets removed but a link to it survives in an old post; a partner closes the page you linked to; your own page moves to a new URL without a redirect. Each one is easy to miss on its own. Together, across a site that's been running for a few years, they turn into dozens of dead ends nobody finds by hand.
See also
Check a WordPress site · Check domain registration expiry · Check a website's SSL certificate · Know your client's site is down before they call
Does the check crawl the whole site or just one page?
The free one-off check looks at the links on the page you submit. For crawling the whole site on a schedule with alerts on new broken links, you need continuous monitoring.
Do external links to other sites count too?
Yes — visitors see an error regardless of whether the broken page is yours or someone else's. External links break more often since you don't control when a partner moves or removes their page, so they're worth checking regularly.
Do redirects count as broken links?
Only if they lead nowhere. A redirect to a working page is fine and isn't flagged. A redirect that ends in a 404, a server error, or a loop is treated the same as a plain broken link.
Do I need to sign up?
No. A one-off check is free and requires no sign-up. Sign-up is only needed if you want continuous monitoring with an alert before your customer notices a problem.
How often can I check?
The result for each site is cached for 10 minutes so we don't add extra load to the site being checked. For continuous monitoring with checks every minute, put the site under ongoing monitoring in Pingvera.