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EnglishWhat to Consider Before Choosing Dr. Link Check for Your Website
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Dr. Link Check is worth considering if you want an automated way to find broken, malicious, and soft-error links across a whole site rather than checking pages by hand. It fits teams that also need scheduled re-checks, email status reports, and CSV export for follow-up work. Before committing, confirm that its check types match your risks and review the Pricing page for plan options, since the available material does not list prices or free-tier limits.
What the tool actually checks
Dr. Link Check starts from a start URL and crawls the HTML and CSS of the site, examining internal page links, outbound links, and links to images, style sheets, and other resource files. Each link goes through several checks:
| Check | What it looks for |
|---|---|
| Broken link check | Malformed URLs, slow server responses, invalid SSL certificates, and error return codes such as 404 or 500 |
| Blacklist check | Whether the link appears on blacklists for hosting malicious content |
| Soft error check | A 200 OK response where the page content still indicates a problem with the link |
This combination matters if your main concern is not just dead pages but also links to malware or phishing sites, expired certificates, and pages that load but effectively fail. If you only need a one-off 404 sweep, the extra checks may be more than you need.
Reporting and workflow fit
Results range from a high-level summary down to the exact locations of links in the code, and can be sorted, filtered, and exported to CSV for processing in Excel. That is useful when fixes are assigned to developers or content editors who need file-level locations rather than a plain list of URLs. If your workflow ends at "here are the bad links," the detailed reporting is a convenience rather than a requirement.
Scheduled checks and email reports
Checks can be configured to run automatically monthly, weekly, or daily, with status reports sent by email. This is the feature to weigh if link rot is an ongoing problem — for example, a site with many outbound links to external resources that change or disappear over time. For a small static site updated rarely, manual checks may be enough.
Decision checklist
- Choose Dr. Link Check if you need broken-link, SSL, blacklist, and soft-error checks in one pass, plus scheduled runs and CSV export.
- Look elsewhere or check further if you only need occasional manual link checks, or if budget is the deciding factor — review the Pricing page before committing, as plan details and any limits are not specified in the available information.
- Verify before relying on it for anything beyond link checking; the material describes link analysis and reporting, not broader SEO or security auditing.