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Best Of Linux : Link Check Wednesday, January 17th 2001 EDT So you finally did it! You sat down and spent hours, days, even weeks creating your own website. But now that you finally have it, the thought hits you- how do you keep it running correctly? One of the biggest annoyances on the Internet is clicking on a link only to find that the linked page no longer exists. Keep visitors to your Web site from getting frustrated by checking your links regularly with Link Check. Link Check is a free program that does exactly what its name implies - it checks the links on your Web site and verifies that they are still active. Link Check understands HTML 3.0, and will even sort through frames and JavaScript to make sure all of your links are checked. The program is written in C, making it both small and fast - perfect for checking your entire Web site tree. Link Check can scan your entire Web site, or can be restricted to subdirectory checks. The program quickly validates and reports temporarily moved pages, and checks the new location. Link Check also validates mailto hrefs for valid DNS MX records on the Internet, and validates FTP/file hrefs by getting the actual file via FTP protocol. It will also report URLs for news, telnet, wais, gopher, and powwow. Link Check not only validates your links, it also estimates the download time for each of your pages, flagging pages that might be slow. Armed with this information, you might find that you want to change the content on some of your pages so that they may load faster. In addition, Link Check will report the last modification time for each of your HTML files, as well as the server types. Link Check saves you time by checking all of your links for you, and at the same time offers you a generous helping of information about your Web site. Keeping your links checked may be just the ticket you need to keep people visiting your website again and again - which after all is why you created the website to begin with. close this window
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