How To Find Broken Links On A Website

What techniques or tools are recommended for finding broken links on a website? I have access to the logfiles, so could conceivably parse these looking for 404 errors, but would li

Solution 1:

For Chrome Extension there is hexometer

See LinkChecker for Firefox.

For Mac OS there is a tool Integrity which can check URLs for broken links.

For Windows there is Xenu's Link Sleuth.

Solution 2:

Just found a wget script that does what you are asking for.

wget --spider  -o wget.log  -e robots=off --wait 1 -r -p http://www.example.com

Credit for this goes to this page.

Solution 3:

I like the W3C Link Checker.

Solution 4:

See linkchecker tool:

LinkChecker is a free, GPL licensed website validator. LinkChecker checks links in web documents or full websites.

Solution 5:

Either use a tool that parses your log files and gives you a 'broken links' report (e.g. Analog or Google Webmaster Tools), or run a tool that spiders your web site and reports broken links (e.g. W3C Link Checker).