Procedure
With Dead Link Checker the following sites are tested:
Findings
The average speed of this broken link checker is 8 links per second.
The maximum number of links being tested is 2000.
Slow websites are tolerated when they respond within 15 seconds.
Unknown status codes (LinkedIn!) are considered an error.
Jon of DLC websites made some comments regarding this test. The changed results are marked as bold.
The requirement "Allows you to save the results (internal or by an CSV export)" is now marked as PASSED. When you use the free Multi-Checker option you might select the "auto send report on completion" option. When set, the test results will be mailed to you.
This Multi-Checker is very handy when you want to test multiple websites at once.
Note that Dead Link Checker follows redirected links, however when the destination is good then no report is issued.
Results
- Testing with A Different End Of The Internet give these results:
- PASSED: Examines links to other resources (the src attribute) - Should
- PASSED: Examines structural links (the link tag) - Should
- FAILED: Respects robots.txt of the-linked-to-website - Could
- Not applicable: Presents unchecked links due to the robots.txt directive at the-linked-to-website - Must
- Testing with httpstat.us give these results:
- PASSED: Detects link error 404 - Must
- PASSED: Detects all link errors in the 400 and 500 range - Should
- FAILED: Detects redirected links - Should
- Testing with Dead Link City give these results:
- PASSED: Examines links in stylesheets - Could
- Testing with Rusty Links give these results:
- PASSED: Examines internal links - Must
- PASSED: Examines relative links in combination with the base tag - Should
- FAILED: Examines inline (anchor) links - Could
- PASSED: Examines external links - Must
- PASSED: Examines standard hyperlinks (the a tag) - Must
- FAILED: Ignores structural links with the dns-prefetch attribute - Could
- FAILED: Examines links with other schemes (at least FTP://) - Could
- PASSED: Examines Unicode links - Should
- FAILED: Detects blacklisted links (at least blacklisted by Google Safe Browsing) - Could
- PASSED: Respects robots.txt - Should
- PASSED: Allows you to test websites with up to 500 links - Must
- PASSED: Allows you to test websites with up to 2000 links - Should
- FAILED: Allows you to test websites with up to 5000 links - Should
- FAILED: Allows you to test websites without a restriction on the number of links - Should
The tests done by hand give these results:
- PASSED: Allows you to take a subdirectory as base for the test - Should
- FAILED: Allows you to start the test with a single click (after entering the to be tested URL) - Could
- PASSED: Allows you to use your mobile device - Could (only for online link checkers)
- Not applicable: Allows you to use a graphical user interface - Could (only for offline link checkers)
- PASSED: Allows you to test an unlimited number of websites - Should
- PASSED: Allows you to retest a website unlimited - Must
- PASSED: Allows you to save the results (internal or by an CSV export) - Could
- PASSED: Presents the results in one overview - Should
- FAILED: Presents 200 Ok and broken links - Could
- PASSED: Presents the webpage where an issue is found - Should
- FAILED: Presents in detail (e.g. linenumber, source viewer) where an issue is found - Could
- PASSED: Presents in a clear way the results when there are no issues found - Could
- PASSED: Test at least 5 links per second - Could
- FAILED: Test at least 10 links per second - Could
- FAILED: Test at least 15 links per second - Could
- FAILED: Test at least 20 links per second - Could
- FAILED: Test at least 25 links per second - Could
Score
Based on the results above 60 points (out of 87) were earned. That gives a score of 69%.
The Dead Link City score is 74/74.
Note that DLC Websites published Dead Link Checker and Dead Link City.
