This crawl overview pane updates while crawling, so you can see there number of client error 4XX links you have at a glance. They both show the same results, regardless of which way you navigate. There are two ways to do this, you can simply click on the ‘tab’ at the top and use the drop down filter –Īlternatively you can use the right-hand window crawl overview pane and just click directly on ‘Client Error (4xx)’ tree view under the ‘Response Codes’ folder. You can wait until the crawl finishes and reaches 100%, or you can just view 404 broken links while crawling by navigating to the ‘Response Codes’ tab and using the filter for ‘Client Error 4XX’.

Open up the SEO Spider, type or copy in the website you wish to crawl in the ‘Enter URL to spider’ box and hit ‘Start’.Ģ) Click The ‘Response Codes’ tab & ‘Client Error (4XX)’ Filter To View Broken Links The next steps to find broken links within your website can be viewed in our video, and tutorial below. You can crawl more than 500 URLs with the paid version. You can download via the green button in the right hand side bar.

First of all, you’ll need to download the SEO Spider which is free for crawling up to 500 URLs. You can use the Screaming Frog SEO Spider for free (and paid) to check for broken links (the http response ‘404 not found error’) on your website.īelow is a very quick and easy tutorial on how to use the tool as a broken link checker.

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