Errors
External links to broken or unavailable pages deliver poor user experience and signal content that has not been maintained. When pages you link to return errors or no response, users clicking those links arrive at dead ends. These three checks identify every type of external link failure detected during the crawl.
Response Codes External Client Error (4xx)
Warning
An outbound external link returns a 4xx error — the linked resource no longer exists.
Response Codes External Server Error (5xx)
Warning
An outbound link returns a 5xx server error — the external site is having server issues.
External No Response
Warning
An outbound link received no response — the external server is down or unreachable.
Audit external link errorsacross your site
A full audit checks every outbound link's status and flags broken external links with the source pages.