Broken links are one of the most damaging SEO issues because they silently accumulate. Every time you delete a page, change a URL slug, or link to an external site that goes down, you create a dead link that wastes Google's crawl budget, frustrates visitors, and leaks the link equity that was pointing to that page.
Our free broken link checker scans any page and tests every link on it — internal and external — reporting the HTTP status code, the anchor text, and whether it's a 404, 301, 500, or timeout.
Find broken links on any page:
Free Broken Link Checker →Google's crawler follows every link on your pages. When it hits a 404, it records that your site has dead links. A few won't hurt, but once you accumulate 10 or more, Google starts to distrust your site's quality. Broken links also waste crawl budget — every request Google spends on a dead page is a request it didn't spend indexing a live one.
For visitors, broken links are a trust signal. If someone clicks a link on your site and gets a "Page not found" error, they're less likely to trust your content or buy from you. Studies show that encountering a single broken link reduces the chance of a visitor converting by up to 15%.
Enter any URL and the tool fetches the page, extracts every <a href> link (up to 50 links), and sends a HEAD request to each one. For each link you'll see the full URL, the HTTP status code (200, 301, 404, 500, timeout), and whether it's internal or external. Broken links are flagged in red with the specific error.
This tool checks one page at a time — perfect for spot-checking your most important pages. If you want to scan every link across your entire site (up to 50 pages), run a full SiteBeat scan which crawls your whole site and finds every broken link across every page.