I have been searching for a tool to check broken links on our HOA website. Most are inadequate...maybe they only check a webpage at a time or provide few clues where the broken link might be. It's been a struggle.
Courtesy of an article on WP University, 5 Tools to Check for Broken Links on Your Wordpress Site, I downloaded and tried Xenu's Link Sleuth.
Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a free Windows app that scans entire websites for broken links. Provide a URL and it takes care of the rest. It runs a comprehensive scan that checks for broken links, images, frames, backgrounds, stylesheets, and scripts.
The first time I ran it, I found broken links that were embedded in the code that I was able to find and remove. These errors were a result of not changing a link properly so were dirty code rather than a broken link on the website. Still, clean code is better code.
Now I can scan the entire website in minutes and happily do it more often!
