Check Your Whole Website for Broken Links

Why check the whole site, not just one page

Broken links rarely live where you expect them. A product you removed last year is still linked from three old blog posts. A partner changed their domain and every mention of them on your site now leads to an error page. A PDF was moved and the link in your footer has been dead for months. Visitors hit these dead ends, leave, and rarely tell you about it.

Checking pages one at a time works for the page you're editing right now. It doesn't tell you what's broken on the other two hundred pages. The whole-site scan does: it starts from the address you enter, follows every internal link, reads your sitemap, and tests every link it finds along the way. When it's done, you have one list of everything that's broken and where it lives.

What the report shows

The report opens in its own tab, so it doesn't get in the way of your work. At the top you see how many pages were checked and how many links were found, split into valid, redirected, and broken. Click any of these to filter the list, or type part of a URL or link text into the search box to find a specific link.

Each broken link shows the pages it was found on. A link that appears on one page opens that page with the link highlighted in red. A link that appears on many pages expands into a list of those pages, each one a click away. Redirected links show the redirect and the final address, so you can point the link straight to the right place.

Everything you see can be exported to CSV: all links, only the broken ones, or whatever is on screen after filtering. Each row includes the link, its status, and the page it was found on, so you can hand the file to a developer or editor and they know exactly what to do.

Who uses the whole-site scan

• Website owners checking their site after a redesign, a move to a new domain, or a big content cleanup.
• Online stores where discontinued products, expired promotions, and old category pages leave dead links behind.
• Content and marketing teams keeping blogs, resource libraries, and landing pages free of outdated references.
• Agencies and freelancers running a quick link audit before handing a site over to a client, with a CSV to show for it.
• Anyone who has been asked "why does this link on our site not work?" one too many times.

Good to know

• The scan discovers pages through links and your sitemap. Pages outside that discovery path, behind a login, or beyond your chosen limit may not be checked.
• The scan sees your site the way a visitor who isn't signed in sees it. Your logins and cookies stay private.
• Links to other websites are tested and reported, but the scan stays within your site and doesn't go through other sites' pages.
• The default limit is 1,000 pages, which is enough for most websites. You can raise it to 10,000 before each scan.
• Keep the scan tab open until the scan finishes. If pages start loading in the panel on the right, stay on this tab while they load.
• You can stop at any time and keep what's already checked, then continue later from the same place.
• Pages that are built with scripts are opened in a browser view so their links are found too.

One page or the whole site?

Both are part of the same extension, and both are included in every plan. Click the icon to check the page you're on, or click Whole site to check everything. Most people use the page check while editing and the whole-site scan once a month or after big changes. Read more about how often to check for broken links and auditing links before a redesign.