A large website, a lot of links
I managed a website with thousands of pages. There were links to other pages, external websites and documents, and some of them would stop working.
Visitors would reach a “404 Page Not Found” message instead of the information they needed. Broken links also made the site look unmaintained.
Just the content I’ve edited
I already have scheduled automated checks that gather broken links across the website. But when I’ve just edited a page, I want a quick check of that content, right in my browser.
I don’t need to check the main menu and footer again each time. With LinkScan, I can select the content I want to check and scan just those links.
Linking to the final address
I also wanted to find links that still worked but sent visitors through a redirect before reaching the page.
A redirect still works, but it adds a hop, so I wanted to link straight to the final address.
A small part of my daily work
“I use LinkScan almost every day — just a quick check that the links in the content I’m working on are OK.”
It helps me catch broken links and update links that lead through redirects while I’m working on a page. Visitors hit fewer dead ends. Fixing broken internal links also lets visitors and search engine crawlers reach the pages I want found.
It became useful enough in my own work that I decided to share it with other people who edit website content.
If there’s a way you’d like to use LinkScan, tell me what you’d like it to do.