New Broken links UI
Keeping your website free of broken links is essential for good user experience and SEO - that's why Oh Dear monitors your entire website! Our broken links crawler will find and test all the links on your site and we keep going until we have checked everything!
In addition to alerting you when you need it we have given our Broken Links feature a UI makeover! With this update it's now easier than ever to identify and resolve broken links across your site. Here’s a quick introduction of what you can expect from the new interface.
What's new?
Streamlined results
We now show an overview of the crawl process where you can quickly see the total number of pages found, internal/external broken links, pages fixed from the last run as well as any links that have been removed since the last report.
Enhanced searching
You could always download your results in Excel or CSV format but you can now search all links by error code (404, 500, etc.), URL or parent URL in the UI. It's one less thing to have to do to find the pages you need!
Link Diffs
Any links that were found on the current and previous runs will now be compared to show any changes to status code, link text, or parent URL. In the screenshot below we can see an 'About' page was found on the homepage but responded with a 404. The 'fixed' tab now shows the new successful response code along with the updated link text.
Managing broken links is now more intuitive and efficient which means you can focus on fixing issues and optimising SEO. Whether you’re a solo developer or running a large e-commerce platform our revamped Broken Links crawler is designed to help you maintain a smooth and error-free browsing experience for your audience.
Don’t forget to check out our sitemap service!
In addition to our broken links crawler we also offer powerful sitemap monitoring. This feature ensures the format of your sitemap is valid and any other issues that might prevent search engines from properly indexing your site. We also scan every link to ensure they are valid and accessible.
If you're already using the broken links service then the sitemap monitoring is a perfect complement. It ensures that every link on your site - whether it’s in your sitemap or found organically - meets the same high standards.
Try it out today and keep your site working perfectly from every angle with a free 30-day trial. Let us know what you think!
