Technical SEO Site Auditor & Broken Link Checker

Crawl any website and get a page-by-page technical SEO audit in minutes. Paste a homepage URL — the Actor follows internal links (and your XML sitemap), runs 40+ on-page and technical checks on every page, checks every internal link for 4xx/5xx errors, and gives each page a 0–100 health score with a clear list of issues to fix. Plus a free per-site summary with duplicate titles, duplicate meta descriptions, robots.txt, sitemap and HTTPS checks.

It works with plain, fast HTTP requests (no headless browser), so it's cheap: $5 per 1,000 audited pages, with no monthly fee.

What does it check?

Area	Checks
Status & redirects	4xx / 5xx pages, failed requests, redirects and redirect chains, HTTP vs HTTPS, HTTP→HTTPS redirect, slow server response (TTFB)
Titles & meta	Missing / too long / too short / multiple <title>, missing / too long / too short / duplicate meta description, duplicate titles across the site
Headings	Missing H1, multiple H1s, H1 identical to title, H2/H3 counts
Indexability	noindex / nofollow in meta robots and X-Robots-Tag, canonical missing / pointing elsewhere / multiple, robots.txt blocking
Links	Broken internal links (and optionally external links) with the page they appear on, internal/external/nofollow link counts
Content	Word count / thin content, images without alt, mixed content (HTTP resources on HTTPS pages), large HTML
Mobile & i18n	Viewport meta tag, <html lang>, hreflang alternates, charset
Social & rich results	Open Graph (og:title, og:image), Twitter card, JSON-LD / microdata types, invalid JSON-LD
URLs	Too long, uppercase letters, underscores
Site level (free row)	robots.txt found, sitemap found and size, HTTP→HTTPS redirect, duplicate titles & descriptions, issue totals, average score

How to use it

1. Add one or more start URLs (usually homepages).
2. Set Max pages per site (start with 20–100 to try it).
3. Choose the broken link check scope: internal links (default), all links, or none.
4. Click Start. Results appear as a table you can export to CSV, Excel, JSON or Google Sheets, or fetch via API.

Tip: schedule it weekly to catch new broken links, accidental noindex tags and missing titles before Google does.

Input example

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.example.com/" }],
    "maxPagesPerSite": 200,
    "maxDepth": 5,
    "useSitemap": true,
    "checkLinks": "internal",
    "excludeUrlPatterns": ["**/tag/**", "**?replytocom=*"],
    "respectRobotsTxt": true
}

Output example

One row per audited page (sorted worst-first), plus one free site summary row per website:

{
    "recordType": "page",
    "url": "https://www.example.com/blog/old-post",
    "statusCode": 200,
    "score": 64,
    "errorsCount": 1,
    "warningsCount": 3,
    "issuesSummary": "meta_description_missing, h1_missing, images_missing_alt, broken_links",
    "title": "Old post | Example",
    "titleLength": 18,
    "metaDescription": null,
    "h1Count": 0,
    "canonical": "https://www.example.com/blog/old-post",
    "canonicalStatus": "self",
    "indexable": true,
    "wordCount": 412,
    "imagesMissingAlt": 2,
    "brokenLinksCount": 1,
    "brokenLinks": [{ "url": "https://www.example.com/deleted-page", "status": 404, "internal": true }],
    "responseTimeMs": 182,
    "structuredDataTypes": ["BlogPosting", "BreadcrumbList"],
    "issues": [
        { "code": "meta_description_missing", "severity": "warning", "message": "Missing meta description" },
        { "code": "broken_links", "severity": "error", "message": "1 broken link(s) on this page" }
    ]
}

Dataset views: Pages overview, Broken links, and Site summaries.

Pricing

Pay only for what you use (pay-per-event), no subscription:

Event	Price	When
Page audited	$0.005 ($5 / 1,000 pages)	Each crawled page saved with its full audit
Extra link checked	$0.0002 ($0.20 / 1,000 links)	Each unique link that isn't itself a crawled page, checked for broken status
Actor start	$0.00005	Once per run

Pages blocked by robots.txt and the per-site summary rows are free. A 100-page site with internal link checking typically costs about $0.50–0.60. You can cap spend with the "Max cost per run" setting; the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

FAQ

Does it render JavaScript? No. It audits the HTML your server returns — the same HTML search engine crawlers fetch first. Sites that build all content client-side (pure SPAs) will show thin content; that is itself a useful SEO signal.

Will it overload my site? It uses 5 parallel requests by default, honors robots.txt and Crawl-delay, and identifies itself with a transparent user agent. You can lower concurrency.

Can I audit only a section? Yes — use Only audit URLs matching (e.g. https://example.com/blog/**) and Skip URLs matching.

How is the score calculated? 100 minus 15 per error, 5 per warning and 1 per notice (minimum 0). Use it to prioritize, not as an official Google metric.

Can I check external links too? Set Broken link check to Internal + external links.

Is there an API? Yes — like every Apify Actor you can run it via the Apify API, Python/JS clients, Make, Zapier or n8n, and schedule it.

Questions or feature requests? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.