One of the drawbacks of creating web pages with links to selected websites is the necessity of checking up on those links from time to time to make sure the links are still valid. Websites appear, disappear, and move with alarming frequency. So you’ve made a page with relevant links to quality websites on a particular topic, to allow your website visitors to learn more on the topic. But a week later, are the links still good? You certainly can’t go click every link on every page on your site once a week! You need some kind of program that will do it for you.

Xenu’s LinkSleuth is that kind of program. You just enter a URL and it will check all the links on it and let you know whether they’re working or broken. You can even set a depth level. For instance, a depth level of 2 will check all the links on the URL you entered, and then also check the links on THOSE pages. And “links” includes images, frames, i-frames, backgrounds, style sheets, and more.

It’s a free program, has a simple interface, and is small (less than 1MB). Just what you want in a freeware program!