Fast Link Checker Lite

With the help of Fast Link Checker Lite, you can check a website for broken links and find out which URLs are still active. Invalid URLs negatively influence a domain's ranking across search engines, so it's a good idea to find and fix pages with 404 errors as soon as possible, in order to maintain and improve your website's reputation.

This free app gets installed quickly and doesn't require third-party software to work properly. The main window has a clean appearance and intuitive structure, where you can get started by entering the start URL.

The website checker will scan this URL along with all links originating from it. You can instruct it to check the hyperlinks, images with links and other types of URLs (such as scrips or CSS).

It can recheck the bad links for as many times as you want, ignore the site's robots.txt file during scans, only check the links in the first URL while ignoring the rest, do not check external links, as well as ignore the character case when comparing links.

Evidently, the scanning operation can take a very long time, depending on the size of the website as well as total URLs. Results reveal the status, comment, title, protocol, content type, size, last modified date, charset, access time, directory level, and location (internal or external) of each scanned link.

Broken links can also be viewed in a separate tab. The report with everything or just the broken URLs can be exported to HTML format. It's possible to temporarily pause the scan operation to allocate system resources to other applications, stop the search, and switch to another GUI language.

As far as program settings are concerned, you can change the default URL timeout, number of network connections and maximum number of network connections made to the same server, select the operating system that will be used for compatibility testing, choose between the 1.0 and 1.1 http protocol, and schedule the PC to auto-shutdown on task completion.

The worksheet with the current data and settings can be saved to file and later opened to pick up where you left off.

All things considered, Fast Link Checker Lite delivers a straightforward solution and handy options to help you check the validity of URLs within a website. For more features, you can check out the commercial edition, called simply Fast Link Checker.