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Check any website for dead links with the help of this lightweight software utility that enables you to export your reports for further analysis. Nobody likes a broken link. It is a bad experience for your web site visitors. Google recommends checking your site for broken links on a regular basis. Doing it manually would be a nightmare.
Broken Link Detector runs a comprehensive scan that checks for broken links. It is common knowledge that broken links negatively impact your website since not only is the user experience spoiled, but your overall ranking is damaged, with search engines not indexing your page. Once you have installed the program on your computer, which you should know is a hassle-free process, you are welcomed by a clean user interface anyone could figure out in a matter of seconds. At the top of the main window, you can paste the URL you want the tool to analyze, with the possibility of stopping the scan at any point by resorting to a dedicated button.
To be more specific, the app can check the domain name only, strictly the subdomain name, or all domain names, with the possibility of carrying our a recursive URL scan as well. On the other hand, if you are an advanced user, you may want to take a glimpse of the aforementioned extra options so that you can manage the connection and response timeout, the agent, the ignored extensions as well as ignored.
Broken Link Detector 
