Auditing websites for broken links (HTTP 404 errors) prevents crawl budget waste and preserves user trust. LinkChecker is a powerful open-source CLI web crawler.

LinkChecker Audit Commands

Terminal Commandsbash
# Install linkchecker tool
sudo apt install -y linkchecker
 
# Crawl domain and export broken links report to HTML file
linkchecker --output=html --file-output=html/report.html https://lynxbee.com/