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The Broken Link Preventer: Stopping broken links in real time.
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Silicon Glen, Scotland: Broken link prevention tool launched.
And now for something completely different. A link checker that doesn't just tell you where the broken links are on your site, instead it prevents broken links from occurring and tells you how many times on your site people have tried to access a link that leads to broken content.

We believe this is the first broken link prevention tool that works for any link and which works in real time, telling you within seconds that someone has accessed a potentially broken link on your site. More than that, even though there's about 1000 external links in the soc.culture.scottish FAQ, none of them break anymore.

Program features

• Prevent people accessing content on your site and anywhere else on the Internet that would produce a 404 error.
• Report on links that lead to broken content (anywhere on the Internet) by the frequency that this content was accessed.
• Constantly monitor all the links on your site with only trivial load on your server
• Constantly check your site without interfering with your site statistics or access logs
• Works on all major browsers
• If you think a custom 404 page on your site is a good idea, well now you can have the equivalent functionality for external sites as well! See an example page

Comparison with a conventional link checker

• Conventional link checkers usually run on your desktop or on a 3rd party server, our checker runs on your server
• Conventional link checkers load your server by downloading all the content, add to your logfiles and web statistics. Ours does none of these.
• With a conventional link checker you have to download the entire site to get a report on all the broken links, this takes time. With our link checker, you can find out in seconds when a broken link is seen by a visitor, no matter how large your site is. You can view the latest broken links in real time.
• Conventional link checkers generally only report on links that can be found by crawling the site. Our link checker can report on all the links on a site regardless of whether a spider can find the page they are on.
• Conventional link checkers only tell you where the broken links are, not how many times visitors see them. The visibility of broken links and the frequency they cause a problem for visitors is much more significant for site quality.
• Client side link checkers can be operating system dependent, our link checker works on multiple operating systems and on all the major browsers. It also doesn't require a content management system.
• Our link checker tracks all external links and tells you where people go after leaving your site. Not only do conventional link checkers not capture this information but purchasing this information from third parties can be very expensive.
• Some conventional link checkers limit the number of pages you can check, we have no limits.

The testing process for broken links

This tool is complimentary to the work done by the excellent xenu link sleuth. Xenu is ideal for finding broken links during development before a website goes live. You can use xenu on the development version of a site to verify you have no broken internal links for instance and to perform a pre-live check on any external links. However, once your site is live we recommend using our broken link monitor for all the reasons explained above.

Further information

Please contact us for pricing, licensing and deployment information. We can either give you the code to install it on your own server, or we offer a managed service where you don't have to install anything and can simply use the installation on our server from $50 a year to cover bandwidth and support.

This article is translated to Serbo-Croatian language by Jovana Milutinovich from Web Geeks Resources.