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The Link Checker for WordPress uses an external service to crawl your website and and find broken links and images on your website. In contrast to search engine tools like the Google Search Console, which only show if a URL on your website is not reachable, it does not matter for the Link Checker if the links leads to an internal or external URL. The Link Checker will find all dead links. The Link Checker works for every plugin out of the box. The computation costs for your website is also very low because the crawler does the heavy work and just acts like a normal visitor, who visits all pages of you website once. Features Simple setup. Works out of the box with all WordPress plugins. Low computation costs for your webserver. Technical Features Respects your robots.txt file (also the crawl-delay directive). You could use the user-agent MB-SiteCrawler to control the crawler. Additional Technical Features of the Professional Version Check if embedded internal and external images are broken. Scheduler to automatically check a website once a day and get a summary report by email. Upcoming Technical Features Support for checking the availability of videos, CSS files and JS files. Technical Requirements cURL 7.18.1 or higher. PHP 5.3 should be compiled against a compatible cURL version in the most cases. PHP 5.4 or higher should by default provide a compatible cURL version. OpenSSL 0.9.8f or higher. Limitations of the Basic Version The free basic version of the Link Checker allows you to check the first 500 internal and external links on your website. If you need more capacity, you could buy a token for the professional version of the Link Checker to check up to 50’000 links. Link Checker Professional Use of an External Server The Link Checker uses an external server, operated by the developer of the plugin, to crawl your website and detect broken links. This means, that there is some communication between your website and the server. The only data that is communicated to the external server by your website is the URL of your website and the fact that you are using WordPress. The server than crawlers your website (as a normal visitor does) and answers with a list of the found broken links.