Are any internal links sending visitors to a dead end?
A link that once worked and now 404s is invisible until someone clicks it. Broken internal links waste crawl budget, leak the trust you built, and quietly cost conversions.
Checks a bounded sample of internal links from your key pages with a real request. Nothing is stored.
How this check works
Shipwork collects the internal links on a sample of your key pages and requests each one, reporting any that return 404, 410 or a server error. It reads the links a crawler would follow, from outside your network.
Questions
- Why do broken internal links matter?
- They waste crawl budget, drop link equity into nothing, and frustrate visitors — all of which cost ranking and sales.
- How are links broken?
- Renamed pages, deleted products or collections, and typo edits are the usual causes. A redirect can cover them, but fixing the link is better.
- Is this a full site crawl?
- The free check samples links from your key pages. Mapping every internal link on a large site is part of the paid deep crawl.