Imagine a visitor clicks a link on your site and lands on a 404 error. Now imagine that happening hundreds of times a day. VWrap Scanner’s Broken Link Checker helps you avoid this nightmare by automatically detecting broken, dead, or misconfigured internal and external links across your website or web application. Whether it’s a missed update, a mistyped URL, or an expired third-party resource, this feature catches it before your users (or Google) do.
The Broken Link Checker is a core feature of VWrap Scanner that scans every page of your site to detect hyperlinks that no longer lead to valid content.
This includes:
Internal links (e.g., /about, /product/features)
External links (e.g., partner sites, CDNs, APIs)
Static and dynamic links (found in HTML, JavaScript, or loaded by scripts)
It identifies links that return errors such as:
404 Not Found
403 Forbidden
500 Internal Server Error
Timeouts or redirects to non-existent pages
Each broken link is flagged in your central dashboard with its source, location, and recommended fix.
Broken Links That Cost an eCommerce Site Thousands Scenario: A popular fashion eCommerce store embedded several external product review widgets via third-party URLs. Over time, those providers changed their domain structure, causing all review links to return 404 errors. Customers couldn’t view product reviews, which led to a 15% drop in conversion rate over two weeks. Worse, the site’s SEO suffered, as Google flagged multiple crawl errors in Search Console.
VWrap Scanner’s Broken Link Checker quickly identified the issue across thousands of product pages, pointing directly to the broken review widgets. Within hours, the dev team updated the links and restored functionality. Without VWrap Scanner, this could’ve taken weeks to detect manually.
Broken links don’t just hurt your user experience they hurt your SEO, conversion rate, and brand reputation. Here’s what can happen if you ignore broken links:
VWrap Scanner solves this with automated crawling, scheduled scans, and actionable reports so you can stay ahead of both users and search engines.
Don’t Let Broken Links Kill Your Conversions or SEO. Start your free website scan today and give your visitors and Google something solid to land on.
