No signup · nothing to install
Free broken link checker
Scan up to 2,000 pages and see every dead link, the page it’s on, and the words it’s linked from.
- Up to 2,000 URLs per scan
- Results in minutes
- Export to CSV
What the broken link checker shows you
Paste your address and watch the scan fill in. No account, nothing to install.
Every broken link with its status code, the page it’s on and its link text. Open one to see what the server answered.
Filter to redirects and see each one’s status code and where it points.
Status codes, link types, file types, plain-http links and subdomains, charted for the whole site.
A scan every week and an email after it: what broke, what got fixed, and the trend over time.
Skip domains and folders, scan a staging site behind a password, and mute a link you can’t fix.
Recorded on our demo site, a bakery with a few problems planted on purpose.
Broken links
Where exactly is it broken?
A list of dead URLs isn’t enough to fix them. For each broken link you see the page it’s on, the words it’s linked from, its status code and what the server answered.
- 404s, 410s, server errors and links that time out
- Links, images, scripts and stylesheets, on your site and off it
- Export to CSV: broken links only, or every URL checked
Redirects
Where do your old links go now?
Moved pages and old permalinks still work through redirects, but each one adds a round trip, and some end up somewhere you didn’t mean. See every redirect and where it points.
- 301, 302, 307 and 308, each with its destination
- The page linking to it, so you can update the link
- Plain-http links that should be https
Monitoring
Did anything break this week?
Sign in with Google and your sites are checked every week, free. After each scan you get an email with new broken links, the ones that got fixed, and your site’s health score.
- Weekly on the free plan, daily from the Standard plan
- Broken links, redirects and warnings over time
- A timeline of each scan, down to the rate limits it hit
Settings
Staging site behind a password?
Add its Basic Auth login and scan it like any other site. The password is stored encrypted and only ever sent to that domain, over HTTPS.
- Skip domains, folders and URL patterns
- Choose how deep to look: links only, or images, scripts and forms too
- Skip a link you can’t fix, and bring it back any time
Two free Chrome extensions
Broken Link Checker
Checks the links on the page you’re looking at and marks the dead ones. For a quick look while you edit, without a full scan.
Add to Chrome
Claude Code Enhancer
Export Claude Code chats to Markdown, jump between your prompts, and save prompt templates to reuse.
Add to ChromeFree to start. Plans when you need more.
Paid plans save up to 20% when billed yearly.
Free
$0
- No signup: scan any site, up to 2,000 URLs
- With Google sign-in: 2 sites checked every week, with an email report
Lite
$6/month
- 5 sites, 50,000 URLs each
- Weekly or monthly, on the day and time you choose
Standard
$15/month
- 10 sites, 200,000 URLs each
- Daily scans
- Priority email support
Professional
$50/month
- 20 sites, 1,000,000 URLs each
- Daily scans
- A dedicated support channel
FAQ
A broken link checker is a tool that crawls your website and identifies links that no longer work – returning HTTP errors like 404 (Not Found), 500 (Internal Server Error), or other status codes that indicate a problem. WizardsTool.com scans both internal and external links on your site so you can find and fix them before they hurt your SEO or frustrate your visitors.
Yes. You can scan up to 2,000 URLs with no signup and no account. Sign in with Google and two of your sites are checked every week, also free, with an email report after each scan. Paid plans add more sites, more URLs and daily scans.
Up to 2,000 URLs per scan for free, which covers most small and medium sites. Paid plans go up to 50,000, 200,000 or 1,000,000 URLs per site.
4xx errors like 404 Not Found and 403 Forbidden, 5xx errors like 500 and 503, and links that time out. It also lists every redirect with where it points, and links that still use plain http. It checks links within your site and links to other sites, plus images, scripts and stylesheets if you choose.
No. The web tool works directly in your browser – just enter your URL and click “Find Broken Links.” If you prefer a browser-based workflow, we also have a Broken Link Checker Chrome extension that lets you check links on any page you visit.
Broken links hurt your SEO in several ways. Search engines like Google see dead links as a sign of a poorly maintained site, which can lower your rankings. Broken internal links waste your crawl budget and prevent search engines from indexing important pages. Broken outbound links reduce the trust signals your site sends. On top of that, visitors who hit dead links are more likely to leave – increasing your bounce rate, which is another negative signal.
It depends on the size and activity of your site. For most websites, a monthly check is a good baseline. If you publish content frequently, update pages often, or link to many external resources, checking weekly is a better practice. External sites change and go offline without warning, so regular scans help you stay ahead of problems.
Yes. Every report can be downloaded as a CSV file, either broken links only or every URL checked. It includes each link’s status, the page it was found on, its link text and where redirects point, ready for a spreadsheet or your team.
The web tool at WizardsTool.com crawls your entire website (up to 2,000 URLs) and generates a comprehensive report of all broken links found across your site. The Chrome extension checks links on the specific page you’re currently viewing in your browser. The web tool is best for full site audits, while the extension is great for quick page-level checks while you browse or edit content.
Scan a site in your niche and look at its broken outbound links: each one points at a resource that’s gone. You can create a better version and suggest it to that site as a replacement. WizardsTool doesn’t have backlink data, so it can’t tell you who else links to a dead page.