Do you check your sites for broken links?

[bernhard]

And if yes, how do you do it? I've written a script using RockShell + RockFrontend dom tools, which is quite easy, but I'm wondering how others do that and if there are tools that already do this properly?

[BrendonKoz]

I am still using the outdated Xenu Link Sleuth to run a spider from my desktop against all links. It's fairly thorough, and you're essentially hitting your site with a decent amount of traffic all at once, but it mostly works (it still checks many external links - one level deeper than it should - even though I tell it not to). I do also have Ryan's FieldtypeVerifiedURL in use, but that - on its own - only checks links held within that fieldtype.

A modern version of the same tool would be Screaming Frog's Link Checker. There is a free version, but it only checks up to 500 links. I run a check once a month for a single organization's web properties; it's a bit pricey for a once-a-month run for us, unfortunately. Otherwise, it seems like the best modern software-based option out there for the task.

[BrendonKoz]

Looks like @Robin S had similar thoughts. ?

https://processwire.com/modules/verify-links/