How to find broken links

ht://Check is a link checking utility provided to the University of Louisville community.  Those responsible for monitoring and maintaining departmental/organizational web sites on "www.louisville.edu" can use ht://Check to identify a variety of problems with the pages on their web site.  The instructions below detail how to use ht://Check to search for broken links on a specific website.

1. Go to https://vhost.louisville.edu/web/htcheck/
2. Enter your ULink userid and password.

        

3. Under the "Available operations", click on "Show the list of links retrieved".

        

4. Change the result type from "All of them" to "Broken link".
5. In the "Referencing URL" section, enter the address for your website followed by a percent sign (%). For example: http://www.louisville.edu/it/%

        

6. Click on the "Submit" button.

In the list that is generated, the "Referencing URL" is the webpage that contains the broken link, and the "Referenced URL" is the link that is broken. You can click on "Link info" in each row for more information about the broken link.

The information provided by the link checker is updated once a week. The update starts at 12:30 a.m. every Monday morning and usually takes around four and a half hours to complete. While it is updating, the information provided by the link checker will be incomplete. If a link is listed as broken, but you are able to access the link, it's possible the link was temporarily broken at the time the link checker was updated or the website doesn't support the method used to check for working links.