It can take a long time to check an entire website for broken links. Your time as a web developer is better spent on different things. But the good news is that tools like InSite from Inspyder can automate the process! This software simplifies the process of find broken links on your website into a task that can be done in minutes instead of hours. InSite is easy to use but industrial strength, and so it is designed for even the largest websites.
Using InSite is so easy. You just enter the URL of the website and click the go. InSite automatically scans each pages and checks all the links, images, css references, etc. for broken links. It’s amazing how much time I was able to protect by making use of this tool, and how many embarrassing errors it saved me from creating. On multiple occasion InSite found a couple broken links I might not have otherwise found (they had been really buried).
There are other benefits to finding and fixing broken links too. Google uses broken links on your own website as one of the top quality indicators. More broken hyperlinks means a disused or unmaintained website. This tells Google that the site is of low quality and can hurt your search ranking. If your spending good time as well as cash on SEO, then finding as well as fixing the broken hyperlinks on your website ought to be on your todo list.
I don’t think checking for broken links is something I can do manually any more. Modern sites are so complex with sometimes hundreds of references on a single page. IMHO InSite is the must have tool for this job.
There is a free trial on their website. InSite is an amazing tool that you’ll wonder how you lived without it.
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