Which of your links lead nowhere?
Links rot quietly. The supplier page you linked to in 2021 moved, the brochure PDF got deleted, and now a visitor clicks and hits a dead end wearing your name. Enter your address and we crawl up to10 of your pages, test every link we find, and list the dead ones with the page each sits on.
The full report goes 50 pages deep.
This free check reads up to 10 pages in the few seconds it gets. The €79 Website Health Report crawls up to50 pages, tests your contact forms as well as your links, and runs roughly twenty checks this one does not: the certificate, speed on a phone, whether your emails arrive, and what Google is told about your business.
Take the checklist instead, free
All 40 faults the report looks for, each with what it means and what to do about it, ordered by what costs you most. Sent immediately, automatically. One email, not a sequence.
Broken links, answered
What counts as a broken link?
A link that leads to a page that no longer exists, or to a site that does not answer at all. One nuance we handle for you: some big sites refuse all automated requests on principle, which looks like a dead link to a naive checker but loads fine in a browser. We recognise those and do not count them.
Why does the free check stop at 10 pages?
Crawling a site properly takes time, and a free tool gets seconds. So this check reads up to 10 of your pages, starting from the address you give it, and tests the links it finds there. The full report crawls up to 50 pages and tests up to 150 link targets, which for most Irish small-business sites is the whole site.
Where do broken links come from? Nobody touched the site.
Mostly from other people. Links to suppliers, directories and news articles rot on their schedule, not yours: the other site reorganises, and your link now leads nowhere. The rest come from your own site being reorganised without redirects. Either way the visitor hits a dead end wearing your name.
Do broken links actually cost me anything?
Each one is a visitor stopped mid-journey, and the journey is usually towards contacting you. Search engines also read accumulated dead links as a sign a site is not being minded. It is one of the cheapest faults to fix: most are a five-minute edit each.