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Link Checking - Free CGI and Perl Scripts

Use one of these free CGI and Perl link checking scripts to find out if you have any broken links on your website.

SpiderTest

SpiderTest is a simple script that looks for broken internal and external links, mailto links, frames, metatags, titles, keywords, descriptions, ...etc and gives a detailed report with an analysis of your errors and proposes solutions according to the most recent HTML standards.
Requirements: Perl
Version: 2.0

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WebTester

WebTester is a handy site management tool, the primary purpose of it is checking your site for broken links. It will report both on missing files and on those which exist but aren't referenced. It can also check the validity of your external links. (That way, if someone moves or removes a page to which you've linked, you'll know that the link needs to be updated!) The script is fairly robust; in addition to following "straight" links, it will also parse and follow links in image maps, in text embedded via SSIs, and (optionally) in CGI-generated pages. It will let you know the effective "download" file size of your pages, and will provide estimates of how long they'll take to download at various connection speeds. In addition, it can create a simple "site map" showing, in outline format, all of your site's pages. (The site map can be included via SSIs on other pages.)
Requirements: Perl
Version: 1.10

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LinkCheck

LinkCheck will check an entire website (or just a single web page if you wish) for broken links. It reports the number of times each link is used, e-mail addresses used (and the number of times), and of course the status of each link.
Requirements: Perl modules: LWP::UserAgent and LWP::Simple
Version: 0.40

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