Broken link monitoring
Find broken links once, then let Sitewell catch the next ones for you.
Links rot on their own. Pages get deleted, external sites go down, and URLs change without warning, so a site that was clean last month accumulates dead links you never touched.
The free broken link checker finds the dead links on your site today. Broken link monitoring keeps watch after the cleanup: Sitewell re-checks the URLs you care about on a schedule and alerts you when one starts returning a 404 or error, so a broken important page becomes an alert instead of a surprise.
What Sitewell watches for you
Watches the URLs that matter
Point Sitewell at your key pages and outbound links, and it keeps checking that each one still resolves instead of quietly turning into a dead end.
Alerts on new breakage
When a watched URL starts returning a 404 or a server error, Sitewell tells you, so you can fix it before visitors and crawlers keep hitting it.
Catches external rot too
Links to other sites break when the other end changes. Monitoring spots those just as readily as your own broken internal links.
Start with the free check
Broken Link Checker
Crawl your site and get every broken internal and external link with its status code, free.
Frequently asked questions
- How is monitoring different from the free checker?
- The free checker is a one-time crawl that finds what is broken now. Monitoring keeps re-checking the URLs you care about on a schedule and alerts you when a new one breaks, so a single cleanup does not go stale.
- Does it check external links too?
- Yes. External links break when the other site changes, and monitoring catches those the same way it catches broken internal links, so a dead outbound link does not sit there unnoticed.
- How often are the links re-checked?
- On a schedule you set. Sitewell re-checks your watched URLs at regular intervals so newly broken links surface quickly rather than piling up between manual crawls.
Let Sitewell keep watch
Set the watch once and get an alert the moment something needs you. See the plans and pick the monitor that fits.