How to find dead links on a website?

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The "404 error" pages are hitting you on the system? Your site is starting to have a lot of links and you would like to be able to check as quickly as possible to see if some of them are broken?

You would even want, why not, to establish this research for a site other than yours in order to better understand its structure? Xenu comes to your aid.

Swift like lightning              

Quite remarkably fast, Xenu is easy-to-use software that instantly "scans" an entire site for dead links.
It acts on hyperlinks, of course, but also takes care of links on images, plug-ins, frames, css, java applets and scripts. It can check the contents of a URI. Or that of local files, which is very practical when you do not have access to Adsl.

Reporting !

Another interest: the production of a report that gives the site map and lists the URLs.

You can have it sent to yourself by e-mail. Otherwise, you can always keep the results obtained by saving them to your hard drive. Also be aware that you can perform a new broken link check, and only two, at will.

 What is the HTML report for. Thanks to this report, webmasters can obtain the list of broken links by link and by page, that of valid URLs to forward to search engines.

It is also possible to consult a map of the HTML pages of the site, results statistics, and the list of orphan files.

How to find dead links with Xenu?

1- START

Start by download Xenu software  et l’installer sur votre ordinateur.  Une fois entré dans l’interface du logiciel, allez dans le menu File et sélectionnez Check URL ou cliquez sur la première icône à gauche de la barre horizontale de menu. Dans le premier champ, tapez l’URL du site dont vous voulez vérifier les liens.

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2-LAUNCH OF THE RESEARCH

If you want to "scan" an entire site, all you have to do is click on OK at the bottom of the window: the search will start. In a few seconds you will discover, on a new page, the complete list of links. Valid ones are in green, broken links in red.

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3- HTML REPORT

Xenu then asks you if you want to generate an HTML report.

Accept by clicking on yes. A dialog box then asks you for details on the data transfer (name of the host, password, etc.). Simply click on cancel to get the HTML report.

4- FIND THE BROKEN LINKS

With the results window displayed, you can see which pages contain a broken link. To do this, right click on the link (in red, therefore) and choose Properties. The dialog shows them in pages linking to this one.