Alternatives to Sitechecker Broken Link Checker
Online tool from the Sitechecker SEO platform that finds 404 and dead links across a website. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Sitechecker Broken Link Checker
Online tool from the Sitechecker SEO platform that finds 404 and dead links across a website.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Sitechecker Broken Link Checker.
Dead Link Checker
Online broken link checker that crawls a website or single page and reports dead links.
Dead Link Checker focuses only on links, with free manual checks of whole sites and paid scheduled checks with emailed reports.
Broken Link Check
Free online dead link checker for whole websites or single pages, with no sign-up.
Broken Link Check needs no sign-up, shows where each broken link sits in the HTML, and is free up to 3,000 pages.
Dr. Link Check
Online crawler that checks a website for broken links, bad SSL certificates and malicious links.
Dr. Link Check also flags links to malware and phishing sites and invalid SSL certificates, with larger sites needing a paid plan.
W3C Link Checker
An online W3C tool that finds broken links and anchors on a web page or whole site.
W3C Link Checker is free with published source code and checks anchors as well as URLs, but has a plain text-heavy report and no SEO audit.
LinkChecker
Open-source command-line tool that checks links in web pages or crawls whole websites for broken ones.
LinkChecker is a free open-source command-line tool under GPL that you run yourself, with many output formats but no graphical interface.
Ahrefs Broken Link Checker
Free online tool that finds broken inbound and outbound links for any website or page.
Ahrefs Broken Link Checker needs no signup and shows inbound as well as outbound broken links, but relies on Ahrefs' index rather than a fresh crawl.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
A desktop website crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux that audits sites for technical SEO issues.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider finds broken links in a local desktop crawl among over 300 SEO checks, free up to 500 URLs.
linkinator
A command-line broken link checker that crawls websites and local files to validate every link.
linkinator is an MIT-licensed command-line checker for live sites and local files, suited to CI pipelines, and requires Node.js unless run through Docker.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Sitechecker Broken Link Checker as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
muffet
A fast command-line link checker, written in Go, that crawls a website to find broken links.
Sitechecker Broken Link Checker is a hosted freemium tool that reports broken links within a wider SEO audit and adds a Chrome extension.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Sitechecker
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Redirect Checker
A free web tool that traces a URL's redirects and reports each status code in the chain.
httpstatus.io
A web tool for checking HTTP status codes, response headers and redirect chains of URLs.
Oh Dear
A hosted website health monitor covering uptime, SSL, DNS, cron jobs, broken links and performance.
SortSite
Website quality scanner testing accessibility, broken links, browser compatibility and SEO against over 1200 checkpoints.
Checkbot
Chrome extension that crawls a website and tests its pages for SEO, speed and security problems.
