A reliable and efficient free website link checker designed specifically for Mac users. It addresses the common issue of broken links, also known as link rot, which occurs when website pages are altered, removed, or relocated. This link checker is specifically tailored for Mac's OSX, ensuring fast and accurate results.
The free website link checker for Mac
Link Checking
Links on a web page very quickly become broken (link rot) because we move, delete or change our own pages, and other people that we link to do the same. Using a link checker regularly will improve your website's user experience (UX) and search engine optimisation (SEO).
Integrity is the free link checker for Mac. It's OSX native, very fast and accurate.
v4.2 [Jul 3, 2013]
improvements to interface for productivity:
- Changes the 'by link' view to an expandable view, occurrences can be seen by expanding view rather than as previously having to open the link inspector
- Link inspector still appears on double-click from link views and is improved
- Adds context menus to the 'by link' and 'by page' views and the 'appears on' table in the link inspector - a number of actions can be performed with a right-click (or control-click) including 'Copy URL' and where appropriate, Visit, Highlight and Locate
- The new Copy URL action is available with a command-C and will copy the URL of the selected item
- A new Locate action lists how to click through from the starting url to find the link in question. It is available via context menus, the link inspector and cmd-shift-L
- Adds 'link text' column to 'by page' view
- Change to wording: 'on page' is now called 'appears on'
- Changes default for highlighting a link on the page - now looks like highlighter pen rather than a box around it (changes prefs defaults to 'background' rather than 'border', and changes the default colour to yellow rather than dark grey - ie (existing users can select this option in prefs if they like))
Also:
- Ignores and continues if 'bad SSL certificate' warning is encountered. But only for the website being tested. (anything else, ie external links, won't be followed anyway)
- If image checking is switched on, now collects alt text and displays in 'link text' columns
- Some options removed from Preferences>Views>By Link view (Status, URL, On Page) because these are needed for the new outline view to work properly
- Exporting from 'by link' view better than previously. (was putting all 'on page' information in a single cell to reflect the view - led to problems due to Excel's 256-character limit)
- Export added to by Page view
- Exports from expandable views reflect the state of the view, ie which rows are expanded or not
