Website Monitoring: Broken Links & Resources Checker

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Monitor your website health by automatically detecting broken resources (images, scripts, styles) and broken deep links (404s, timeouts, etc.). Ensure your users have a seamless experience by identifying and fixing these issues before they notice them.

What does Website Monitoring do?

This Actor crawls a list of provided URLs and checks every resource loaded by the page and every hyperlink found on the page. It identifies:

• Broken Resources: Images, JavaScript files, CSS stylesheets, and other assets that fail to load (4xx/5xx status codes).
• Broken Deep Links: Hyperlinks on the page that lead to non-existent pages or result in server errors.

Why use Website Monitoring?

• SEO & UX: Broken links and missing images negatively impact search engine rankings and user trust.
• Automated QA: Run this Actor periodically to ensure new deployments haven't broken existing pages.
• Save Time: Manually checking every link and asset on a large site is impossible; this Actor does it in minutes.

How to use Website Monitoring

1. Enter URLs: Provide a list of URLs you want to monitor in the input section.
2. Set Limits: Optionally set the maximum number of requests to limit the crawl depth.
3. Run the Actor: Click "Start" and wait for the results.
4. Review Results: Check the "Dataset" tab to see a detailed table of every broken item found, including the source page, the broken URL, and the HTTP status code.

Input

• urls: (Required) List of URLs to start monitoring.
• maxRequestsPerCrawl: (Optional) Maximum number of pages the crawler will visit. Default is 100.

Example input:

{
"urls":[
"https://apify.com",
"https://crawlee.dev"
],
"maxRequestsPerCrawl":50
}

Output

The Actor stores its results in a dataset. Each item represents a broken resource or link.

Example output:

{
"sourceUrl":"https://apify.com",
"issueType":"broken_resource",
"targetUrl":"https://apify.com/non-existent-image.png",
"status":404
}

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Pricing / Cost estimation

How much does it cost to monitor your site? This Actor uses the PlaywrightCrawler which requires a browser. It typically consumes about 0.05 - 0.1 Compute Units per 100 pages checked, depending on the number of resources and links on those pages.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

• Disclaimer: This tool is intended for monitoring your own websites. Please respect the robots.txt and Terms of Service of any site you do not own.
• Support: If you encounter any issues or have feature requests, please open an issue in the "Issues" tab.