It’s been quite some time since we had a new broken link checker reviewed here. At last I’ve come across something simple, fresh and useful!
Pinger is a great FireFox addon that checks all (or selected) links on a page and does it very fast!
To use it, you just need to:
- Right-click anywhere on the page and select “Ping all links”;
- Select any links on page and click either “Ping all links” or “”:
After running through the page links, the tool returns a summarized report:
The above statuses stand for the following:
- Link returned HTTP code between 200 and 300, meaning it’s ok
- Returned code was either 404, or some of other ‘can’t get here’
- Every link has 45 seconds to open and return header. “This one didn’t make it, so you better check it yourself”
- Link didn’t return any HTTP header. Either is server down, or it’s redirecting to protocol other than http / https.
The tool also visualizes the link status nicely by highlighting working links in green, broken links in red, skipped links in grey:
Other broken link checkers we have tried previously:
- 7 Things You Can Do With Xenu Link Sleuth: this post is full of screenshots that visualize how you can use Xenu in many more ways than just checking for broken links;
- 3 Broken Link Checkers Reviewed and Compared: the post compares Xenu, LinkAider and W3C Link Checker head-to-head.
- Tools to Explore and Validate Page Outbound Links: how to both check and analyze page outbound links;
- LinkExaminer: SEO Friendly Link Scanning Utility: a neat tool that also has quite a few SEO-friendly features.
Ann Smarty is the blogger and community manager at Internet Marketing Ninjas. She is specializing in SEO consulting and guest blogging. Ann's expertise in blogging and tools serve as a base for her writing, tutorials and her guest blogging project, MyBlogGuest.com.
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Thanks Ann :-) I tried it and it works perfect… and it's very fast :-)
Andy Kuiper – SEO
Cool I bet this is an excellent way to check your partner links too :)
put them all in one webpage and run this tool
Cool app. Thanks for sharing Ann. It's fast indeed.
So tired of checking for broken links. This is an awesome app. Thanks for this. I'm downloading now.
Nice Info… Thankz… N succses for u…
Very cute tool. Thanks!
This tool is just another reason to be using the Firefox browser! I have been devoted to IE for too long and life has become so much easier using Firefox and all the available webmaster tools/addons.
This tool is just another reason to be using the Firefox browser! I have been devoted to IE for too long and life has become so much easier using Firefox and all the available webmaster tools/addons.
Hi,
I wanted to know, how can i test the “skipped links”, why does pinger skips couple of links, what does it mean exactly.
Do i need to ping each & every page, can i ping all the links in the site with single shot??????