It's easy to do a manual check for broken link for a small sites but it's not possible for carrying out the same manual tasks when you sites contains 1000's web pages and these pages keep's on getting added or deleted at the same time, for this you need some sort of automation tool which can do the same job for you in very effective and smart way, With LinkChecker, you can check HTML documents and Web sites for broken links.Linkchecker also provides a graphical interface "linkchecker-gui" to check links of websites and HTML documents.
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