Rating: 5 

Version tested:  1.2i

Description: Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a program that will browse all pages of a website looking for broken links, and present these in a multi-column sortable report that is easy to work with.

If you have a website (or websites) then you know that the links you have on your website are (a) an integral part of the content of your site, and (b) that these are often unreliable, get broken, and have to be maintained on a regular basis. Enter Xenu’s Link Sleuth, a small and efficient program that will search for and find broken links for you (see screenshot above for a sample report). Xenu will also create a browser-based report than is also useful (see below screenshot).

Xenu allows you to save the project you’re working on, which you can then re-run later on or email it. According to the Xenu website, it also “Supports SSL websites (”https:// “) Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites Detects and reports redirected URLs Site Map”.

A handy little tool overall. Definitely Recommended.

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