Automated broken link monitoring
Schedule recurring crawls that check internal and external links, preserve your crawl history, and show your team exactly where each problem appears without remembering to run another manual audit.
Need a snapshot?
Enter a domain, run one focused crawl, and get a shareable report. No ongoing setup required.
Need ongoing protection?
Save your website, choose a schedule, retain crawl history, and receive results without starting every scan yourself.
Actionable output
A useful broken-link report connects the failed destination to the page and link text that still send visitors there. That gives an editor or developer a fix they can locate immediately.
Illustrative recommendation using the fields available in a redCacti crawl.
What to review
Replace the destination, remove the reference, or add a redirect if you control the missing URL.
From setup to recurring report
redCacti turns broken-link checking from an occasional audit into a repeatable maintenance workflow.
Enter your domain and start a cloud crawl. redCacti maps the crawlable pages and the internal and external links it finds, without installing software on your computer or a plugin in your CMS.
Scheduled crawl
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Schedule daily, weekly, or monthly crawls based on how often your site changes. The crawl runs in the cloud, so it does not depend on your laptop being open or someone remembering to start it.
Open the completed crawl to see the source page, failed destination, anchor text, and failure type. Export the results when an editor, developer, or client needs a clean task list.
Fix-ready context
redCacti organizes crawl findings around the decision that comes next, not around a raw list of URLs.
One scan versus ongoing monitoring
Link failures appear in different forms. A recurring crawl helps you catch the problems introduced by publishing, migrations, template changes, and link decay.
Find links to removed, renamed, or mistyped pages on your own domain.
Catch third-party resources that disappear or stop responding over time.
Surface destinations returning 500-level responses instead of working pages.
Review links that could not be reached during the crawl.
Find indirect or circular paths that should point to the final destination.
See when one broken navigation, footer, or CTA link appears across many pages.
Compared with other approaches
redCacti is built for teams that want recurring crawl results and enough context to act without maintaining a desktop crawler or installing a plugin on every site.
Fast for an isolated audit, but someone must remember to run the next scan.
Convenient inside a supported CMS, but the workflow is tied to that platform and installation.
Powerful for deep technical audits, but scheduled work depends on a machine and configuration.
Cloud-based recurring crawls, saved results, and source-page context for any crawlable website.
Editorial control
redCacti does not rewrite your content or remove links. It keeps the monitoring automatic while your team retains control over every website change.
Continue your broken-link workflow
Run one focused scan when you need a quick snapshot without creating an account.
Open page →Learn how to choose a crawl cadence and build a repeatable fix workflow.
Open page →Follow the complete audit process for internal and external link failures.
Open page →Connect recurring broken-link checks with the rest of your crawl health workflow.
Open page →Automated broken link monitoring runs website crawls on a recurring schedule instead of waiting for someone to start each check. redCacti checks internal and external links, saves the results, and notifies you when a scheduled crawl is ready to review.
The free checker is for a quick, one-time snapshot. redCacti monitoring is for an ongoing workflow: add your website to an account, run recurring crawls, retain crawl history, and review new link problems as your site changes.
Yes. redCacti checks links between pages on your own site as well as outbound links to third-party resources. The report shows the page containing the link, the destination URL, and the response problem it found.
redCacti supports daily, weekly, and monthly crawl schedules. An active publishing site may benefit from weekly monitoring, while a slower-changing site can use a monthly schedule.
No. redCacti finds and organizes broken-link issues, but your team decides whether to update the destination, add a redirect, replace the resource, or remove the link. Nothing is changed on your website without your approval.
No. redCacti crawls the public website, so it can monitor WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, documentation sites, headless sites, and custom stacks without installing a CMS plugin.
The report identifies the source page, broken destination, link text, HTTP or connection problem, and repeated occurrences found during the crawl. This gives an editor or developer enough context to locate and resolve the issue.
Automated website maintenance
Add your website, choose a crawl schedule, and give every broken link a clear source page and next action.
No CMS plugin required. Review every fix before changing your site.