The site-wide broken-link and redirect crawler you own forever.
Developers rent API docs, monitoring, secrets and webhook plumbing by the month for side projects that earn nothing yet. Self-hosted pay-once utilities cost less than one month of the SaaS they replace.
The tool this job usually means renting is Ahrefs Site Audit, at $99+/mo — roughly $1,188 a year, every year. Linkguard does the job for a one-time $24 — running on infrastructure you control.
Give it a start URL plus depth and page limits and it walks your internal pages with undici, no headless browser, checking every internal and external link it finds.
For developers, real crawler pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
Follows redirects hop by hop, stores the full chain, and flags anything over two hops so you catch link-equity leaks.
For developers, redirect-chain analysis pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
URL, status code, hops, link text and the pages each link was found on, filterable to broken, redirects, over two hops, or OK.
For developers, filterable results table pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.
One payment of $24 gets you the packaged 1-click installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/broken-link-checker-mvp and run it yourself for free.
Docker-compose onto a $5 VPS for scheduled monitoring, or run the desktop build for ad-hoc pre-deploy scans.
Add a start URL with depth and page limits, hit scan, and watch broken links, redirect chains and diffs land in a SQLite file you own.
Linkguard is $24, once. Ahrefs Site Audit at $99+/mo — roughly $1,188 a year, every year. Less than one month of Ahrefs covers Linkguard outright, and it never bills you again no matter how many pages you crawl.
Less than one month of Ahrefs covers Linkguard outright, and it never bills you again no matter how many pages you crawl. Linkguard costs $24 once; Ahrefs Site Audit charges $99+/mo — about $1188 a year. For developers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes. Linkguard is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/broken-link-checker-mvp and always will be. The $24 buys the packaged 1-click installer and setup; building from source is free.
In a SQLite file on your own server. Nothing is uploaded to us or anyone else, so your crawl data never leaves your infrastructure.