From the course: HTML and CSS: Linking
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Checking sites for link rot and broken links
From the course: HTML and CSS: Linking
Checking sites for link rot and broken links
- [Instructor] It's so easy for the links on your website to stop working. It doesn't take much if you're linking to outside websites. If you're linking within your own site, even still, documents and links change over time. People forget to redirect their links to the new resources, leading to something called link rot. And it is exactly as it sounds, the links are rotting out there on the internet and they no longer work. An important part of maintaining your site is making sure that your links work. There are automated ways of doing this, thank goodness, so let's take a peak at some of these. The most common services that you will find are commercial services, like this one. This is Dr. Link Check, but there are dozens of other ones I could have picked to be here as well. You enter your website address here in the web browser and it will run an automated check on whatever website you want to look at. Whether that's from the homepage or from some inside page on that website. And it…
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