This post was most recently updated on July 25th, 2017
Sometimes you click on a given link and a page appears with the message “404- Page not found”; who would like that? These are the broken links on you have encountered with.
- What is a broken link?
Broken or dead link is any link on the website which currently not working because of owner has entered a wrong URL or the linked page has been removed or the link page is behind the firewall and hence not accessible.
Having broken links in the page is the worst user experience. It will probably divert the traffic from your website to other available options. It will downgrade your website ranking by search engines. - What is a link checker tool do?
A link checker tool which checks the internal as well as external links of the website to find out all links have proper redirection. Also, it will notify if there are any broken links available in the website.Screaming frog – The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a small desktop application you can install locally on your PC, Mac or Linux machine. It crawls a websites’ links, images, CSS, etc. from an SEO perspective.
- How screaming frog works for broken links?
1. Launch the URL https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/broken-link-checker/
2. Download and set up the desktop the tool
3. Open the Desktop app on your PC
4. Enter the URL of the website which need to check for broken links and click start
Screaming frog view - Features of Screaming frog –
1. Easy and simple to use
2. Get the detail report of website Internal as well as external links with its status code
3. Get the detail report of each web page’s response code with its response time
4. Details of all the URLs throughout the website with its content and length etc.
5. Details of Page title with title length, pixel length
6. Details of Meta keywords used, H1,H2, images
7. User can get graphical detail for each section
8. SERP ( Search engine results page ) Snippets report will get generated for each and every page, link or image of the website
9. User can export specific or entire report
10. User will get a detail crawling summary of website URLs
11. User gets the detailed summary of site structure and response time
