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Link checking

Broken links reduce users' trust in your website - regardless of your site's high quality content – driving users to seek information and services elsewhere.

Link checking

Broken links reduce users' trust in your website - regardless of your site's high quality content – driving users to seek information and services elsewhere.

LinkCheck provides you not only with a tool to detect broken links, but, used in conjunction with SiteInventory, also an online management system to keep your site in order.

  • LinkCheck highlights the precise location of errors on a copy of the page. A blinking smiley (Broken link indicator) next to the broken links or images makes it easy to find the problem.
  • Errors are also highlighted in the page source code, allowing you to identify the exact nature of the problem - it may be that the link is simply misspelled.
  • The LinkCheck Groups facility provides support for multiple website editors, so that each editor can manage and resolve issues with their own website sections.
  • Convenient summary of all external links, giving you an immediate impression of the sites that you link to and the sites that cause the most broken links.
  • LinkCheck Documents on Site provides an instant overview of your site's documents, images and media files - accessible at the click of a button.

When a broken link has been detected, the link is subsequently checked several times in the first 24 hours, at intervals of increasing length. The checks run according to this pattern:

  1. First check: 1 hour after the initial check, detecting the link as broken.
  2. Second check: 2 hours after the first check.
  3. Third check: 3 hours after the second check.
  4. ... and so on.

These checks are performed to ensure that the broken link was not caused by time-out errors, server maintenance, or other temporary issues. The result is an accurate, up-to-date picture of the status of your site's links, at all times.