Link Checker

The Link Checker for WordPress uses an external service to crawl your website and find broken links and images on your website.

In contrast to search engine tools like the Google Search Console, which only show if a URL on your website is not reachable, it does not matter for the Link Checker if the links leads to an internal or external URL. The Link Checker will find all dead links.

The Link Checker works for every plugin out of the box. The computation costs for your website is also very low because the crawler does the heavy work and just acts like a normal visitor, who visits all pages of you website once.

Limitations of the free version

The Link Checker can be used for free, but the free version is limited. You can check websites with up to 500 URLs. Advanced features like image or video checks, CSV export, scheduler support, and form login support aren’t available in the free version.

The service cannot be offered free of charge for larger websites because the crawling is done by servers operated by the plugin developer and renting and maintaining these servers isn’t cheap.

Videos

You can find videos about the Link Checker on the Link Checker for WordPress playlist on YouTube .

Features

• Simple setup .
• Works out of the box with all WordPress plugins.
• Low computation costs for your webserver.
• Lists all broken links and redirects on your website.
• Support for Polylang (probably also WPML) sites.

Technical Features

• Respects your robots.txt file (also the crawl-delay directive). You can use the user-agents MB-LinkChecker to control the crawler.

Additional Features of Link Checker Pro

• Check if embedded internal and external images are broken.
• Check if embedded YouTube videos are broken.
• Scheduler to automatically check a website once a day and get a summary report by email.