What problem does it solve?
This Skill solves the problem of undetected broken internal and external links that damage site SEO, frustrate users, and waste search engine crawl budget by providing a bounded, safe crawl to identify all broken resources.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Bounded Safe Crawl: Limits crawl scope to avoid overloading servers or triggering rate limits.
- Accurate Error Classification: Distinguishes hard 404/5xx errors from soft 404 pages and avoids misclassifying rate-limited 429 responses without manual verification.
- Categorized Issue Reporting: Groups broken links by type (internal pages, assets, external references, redirects, technical endpoints) for easy remediation.
- Safe Redirect Recommendations: Only suggests redirects when there is a clear matching destination and user intent is preserved, leaving bot/API endpoints untouched unless explicitly requested.
- Use Case: A site manager running a pre-launch audit for a new e-commerce site can use this Skill to catch all broken links to old product pages, missing image assets, and outdated external references before search engines index the broken content.
Quick Start
Use the toprank-broken-link-checker skill to run a bounded broken link crawl on your website https://yourdomain.com and get a full report of all detected 404 and 5xx errors.
