How to Find Broken Links on Your Website (Free, 2026)

Three ways to find every broken link on a site: a free online scan, a desktop crawler, or scheduled monitoring.

1. Run a free online scan of your homepage and the pages it links to.
2. For bigger sites, use a crawler that checks both internal and external links.
3. Fix the pages linking to dead URLs first, rather than the dead URLs themselves.
4. Redirect deleted pages (301) to their closest replacement.
5. Set up weekly monitoring so new breakage doesn’t pile up.

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