Check broken links after a redesign
After a launch, old hrefs, leftover sitemap rows, and homepage catch-alls show up as 404s and soft 404s. A practical pass in Chrome.
Web maintenance
Guides in this topic.
How Often Should You Check for Broken Links?
There is no universal calendar. Match frequency to how fast your URLs change — and always scan after a deploy, migration, or content dump.
How to Find and Fix Broken Images
Missing src, stale CDN files, lazy-loaded data-src. How to find broken images in the browser and what to fix besides the filename.
How to Find Broken Links on a Website
Seven practical ways to find dead links — from Chrome DevTools to a full-site crawl — and how to verify false positives before you rewrite URLs.
What link rot is (and what to scan)
Links die as pages move, campaigns expire, and CDNs rename files. How rot shows up on a live site and how to check it without a folklore schedule.
Staging vs production: where to scan for broken links
Staging hosts, basic auth, and noindex lie to you. Scan the URL the user opens, then the preview, not the other way around.