Dead Links Kill Trust. Catch Them Before Your Visitors Do.

Sitewatch extracts up to 50 unique hyperlinks from each monitored page on every scan. Each link is checked with a fast HEAD request (falling back to GET if needed). Broken links are confirmed via 2-of-3 retries before creating an incident with full evidence.

Each broken link incident includes: the exact link URL, the anchor text, the HTTP status code returned, whether the link is internal or external, any redirect chain, and CMS-specific fix steps tailored to your detected technology stack.

Yes. Alongside broken hyperlink detection, Sitewatch validates every script, stylesheet, image, and font your page loads — checking HTTP status codes and MIME types. For a deep dive into resource monitoring, see Broken Assets Monitoring.

Dead internal links waste crawl budget and create poor user experiences. Dead outbound links signal an unmaintained site and leak link equity. Google penalizes sites with excessive 404s. Continuous monitoring catches new breakage before search engines do.

Crawl-based tools do deep one-off audits across your entire site. Sitewatch monitors your key pages continuously — every 5 to 30 minutes — and alerts you the moment a link breaks. Use crawlers for periodic audits, Sitewatch for real-time monitoring.

Sitewatch checks standard HTTP/HTTPS hyperlinks — both internal and external. It skips mailto:, tel:, and javascript: links. Up to 50 unique links per page are checked on every scan.

Check intervals are configurable per site — from every 30 minutes on Free up to every 5 minutes on Pro. Deploy hooks trigger instant checks after every release, catching links that break due to route changes.