#DEAD LINK DETECTOR GENERATOR#
#DEAD LINK DETECTOR REGISTRATION#
#DEAD LINK DETECTOR PROFESSIONAL#
#DEAD LINK DETECTOR FREE#

#DEAD LINK DETECTOR REGISTRATION#

This is entirely useless, even for medium-sized sites.ĮDIT: Plugin registration consists of link allotments, with the minimum being 25K links checked in one go for ~50 Euros.

#DEAD LINK DETECTOR FREE#

I'm using a different plugin.ĮDIT: The free plugin only checks 500 links. That makes this more of an advertisement than an actual plugin. You end up having to buy it to actually use it. It doesn't provide a free tier that's functional for most medium-sized websites. 500 links is simply not enough for a free version. The free plugin works, but stops before it can finish being useful. The crawl-delay defines the time in seconds between to requests of the crawler. Some hosters also add the crawl-delay directive automatically to your robots.txt file. In the most cases this is due to the fact that you have set a large value for the crawl-delay directive in your robots.txt file.

#DEAD LINK DETECTOR GENERATOR#

No, the Link Checker needs to crawl your website and the generator has no access to you local network. Does the Link Checker work in my local development environment? If you do not define a group for the custom user-agent in your robots.txt file, the default set in the * group apply. This allows you a fine grained control of which pages are checked. The Link Checker uses a custom user-agent group named MB-SiteCrawler. Which user-agent should I use in the robots.txt file? Alternatively it is possible to use the crawl-delay directive in your robots.txt to set the delay between two requests. However, I think this option is not available for the affected hosting services. The issue could be fixed by whitelisting the IP of the crawler. Some block crawlers (and regular visitors) already after five fast sequential requests. I have observed this issue especially with free and really cheap hosting providers. The server than crawlers your website (as a normal visitor does) and answers with a list of the found broken links.įAQ Why could the Link Checker not access my site?Ī reason if the Link Checker could not access your site could be that the crawler of the Link Checker is blocked by your hosting provider. The only data that is communicated to the external server by your website is the URL of your website and the fact that you are using WordPress. This means, that there is some communication between your website and the server. The Link Checker uses an external server, operated by the developer of the plugin, to crawl your website and detect broken links.

#DEAD LINK DETECTOR PROFESSIONAL#

Link Checker Professional Use of an External Server A free version was offered for many years, but since August 2022 only a paid version is available. The Link Checker Professional is a paid plugin.

Support for checking the availability of videos, CSS files and JS files.

For example from different users or with different browsers.

The result is saved on the Link Checker server so that it can be fetched multiple times without requiring a recheck.

Form login support to check protected pages like membership areas.

The result can be exported as CSV file.

Scheduler to automatically check a website once a day and get a summary report by email.

Check if embedded YouTube videos are broken.

Check if embedded internal and external images are broken.

You can use the user-agents MB-LinkChecker to control the crawler.Īdditional Features of the Professional Version.

Respects your robots.txt file (also the crawl-delay directive).

Support for Polylang (probably also WPML) sites.

Lists all broken links and redirects on your website.

Low computation costs for your webserver.

Works out of the box with all WordPress plugins.

You can find videos about the Link Checker on the Link Checker for WordPress playlist on YouTube. Please note that the Link Checker requires a paid token to operate. The service is still available for all users that have already purchased a token and will be shutdown when the last issued token expires mid-January 2024. It’s no longer possible to purchase tokens for the Link Checker as of mid-January 2023. The computation costs for your website is also very low because the crawler does the heavy work and just acts like a normal visitor, who visits all pages of you website once. The Link Checker works for every plugin out of the box. The Link Checker will find all dead links. In contrast to search engine tools like the Google Search Console, which only show if a URL on your website is not reachable, it does not matter for the Link Checker if the links leads to an internal or external URL. The Link Checker for WordPress uses an external service to crawl your website and find broken links and images on your website.

Dead link detector