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Link Checker

Crawl your entire website and find every broken link, dead page, and bad redirect, up to 500 pages in a single scan.

We read your sitemap, crawl up to 500 pages, then test every link found. Large sites can take a few minutes.
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Find Every Broken Link Before Your Visitors Do

Broken links frustrate visitors, waste the authority you have built, and signal neglect to search engines. The LinkPanda Broken Link Checker crawls your whole site, follows your sitemap, and tests every link it finds so you can fix problems before they cost you traffic.

What Is the LinkPanda Broken Link Checker?

It is a free, site-wide link auditing tool. You enter your website address and it reads your XML sitemap to build a list of pages, crawls up to 500 of them, and collects every internal and external link along the way. It then sends a request to each unique link and records the response: a healthy page, a redirect, or a broken destination.

The result is a single report showing exactly which links are failing, what status code they return, and which of your pages they appear on. There is nothing to install and no account to create.

Why Broken Links Hurt Your SEO

Every internal link is a path search engines use to discover and rank your content. When that path leads to a dead page, crawl budget is wasted and link authority stops flowing. Outbound links to pages that no longer exist make your content look outdated, and visitors who hit an error page are far more likely to leave. Fixing broken links is one of the simplest, highest-value technical SEO tasks you can do.

Why Use Our Broken Link Checker

Whole-site crawl

It does not stop at one page. It works through your sitemap and checks up to 500 pages in a single scan.

Every status, surfaced

404s, dead domains, server errors, and timeouts are all flagged clearly so nothing slips through.

Redirect detection

301 and 302 redirects are separated out, with the destination shown, so you can spot redirect chains and lazy fixes.

Built for action

See which pages each broken link sits on, filter by type, and export the full report to CSV for your fix list.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many pages does the checker scan?+
Each scan covers up to 500 pages from your sitemap. If your site is larger, the most important pages listed in your sitemap are checked first.
How long does a scan take?+
Small sites finish in under a minute. A full 500-page site with thousands of links can take several minutes, because every single link is requested and verified.
Does it check internal and external links?+
Yes. Every link found on your pages is tested, whether it points to another page on your site or out to a different domain. Each result is labelled Internal or External.
What do the statuses mean?+
A healthy link returns a 2xx status. A redirect returns 3xx and is shown with its destination. A broken link returns 4xx or 5xx, and Unreachable means the page did not respond at all.
Why was a working link marked as broken?+
Some servers block automated requests or rate-limit them, which can produce a false 403 or timeout. Always open a flagged link in your browser to confirm before removing it.
Is the tool free to use?+
Yes, the Broken Link Checker is completely free. There is no sign-up, no software to install, and no limit on how many sites you can check.

Get Access to All SEO Tools

The Broken Link Checker is one of several free tools from LinkPanda. Explore the full set, including the Dofollow / Nofollow Link Checker, on our SEO Tools page.

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