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Broken link monitoring for recurring website audits.
Detect newly introduced broken links and separate them from older unresolved findings.
✓Free during beta✓URL-level evidence✓Private history after signup✓Scheduled monitoring
What this check finds
This page focuses on broken link monitoring in crawl context. The crawler records the fetched URL, response status, discovery source when available, metadata, redirect outcome, and history signals that explain why a finding appears.
Use the check to review recurring crawls, audit history, and change detection. The goal is not just to report a problem, but to show the URL-level evidence needed to decide whether the issue is intentional, accidental, fixed, or still unresolved.
Broken Link MonitoringCompleted
Visited704
Indexable619
Errors20
Warnings8
FindingSeverityEvidence
Scheduled crawl resultInfoCompleted audit and timestamp
New technical findingsWarningNew, resolved, persistent
Broken critical pathsErrorURL-level evidence
Why this check matters
Detect new problems
See whether findings are new, resolved, or still persistent after changes.
Control notification noise
Use monitoring to focus attention on meaningful site changes and breakages.
How to fix and verify it
- Run a focused crawl. Start with the affected website or section and keep settings consistent for follow-up comparisons.
- Inspect the evidence. Review affected URLs, source pages, HTTP statuses, metadata values, and crawl lineage before making changes.
- Apply the smallest safe fix. Update the page, template, route, redirect rule, canonical tag, or internal link that caused the finding.
- Rerun the audit. Confirm that the finding is resolved and did not create a new issue elsewhere.
When to monitor it
Small technical issues become expensive when they remain invisible. For broken link monitoring, a repeatable crawl helps distinguish a one-time anomaly from a persistent problem caused by templates, redirects, routes, metadata, or content changes.
Start with the concrete evidence: affected URL, source page, HTTP status, metadata value, redirect target, or comparison row. After the fix is made, run another crawl with comparable settings to confirm the finding is resolved.
Frequently asked questions
What does this page check?
It checks recurring crawls, audit history, and change detection and presents the result as summary counts plus URL-level evidence. That makes the audit useful for deciding what to fix and for verifying the result in a later crawl.
Will the audit start immediately after I enter a URL?
No. The URL is transferred to the crawler seed field so you can review scope, limits, redirects, and sitemap policy before starting.
Can this be monitored over time?
Yes. Registered users can create scheduled audits and review whether findings are new, resolved, or still unresolved across completed crawls.
Is this only for SEO?
No. The same findings are useful for site maintenance, release validation, migration checks, and general quality assurance.
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