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Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a handy freeware tool which helps you check any website for broken links. Link check is performed on links which appear in <a> tags, as well as images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and Java applets. It displays a continuously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. Another good feature of the application is that it also check SSL websites.

Xenu Link Checker

In the settings, you can enter the URL you want to check, you can also check local HTML files saved in your hard disk.

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Features:

  • Simple, no-frills user-interface
  • Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)
  • Simple report format, can also be e-mailed
  • Executable file smaller than 1MB
  • Supports SSL websites (”https:// “)
  • Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites
  • Detects and reports redirected URLs

Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a very useful application to find all the broken links in any webpage.

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One Response to “Find Broken Links on Websites with Xenu’s Link Sleuth”

  1. Neeraj Kumar says:

    Thats pretty cool.Can it be used on forums too ? :)

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