Link Checker for WordPress uses external service to crawl your website and find broken links and images on your website..
In contrast to search engine tools like Google Search Console, which show if URL on your website is not reachable, it does not matter for Link Checker if the links leads to internal or URL.
The computation costs for your website is also very low because the crawler does the heavy work and just acts like visitor.
The free of Link Checker allows you to check the first 500 internal and external links on your website.
If you need more capacity, you could buy token for the version of Link Checker to check up to 50 00 links..
Link Checker uses server, operated by the developer of the plugin, to crawl your website and detect broken links.
The data that is communicated to the server by your website is URL of your website and the fact that you are using WordPress.
If you do not define group for the custom user-agent in your robots txt file, the default set in the * group apply...
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Fixed conflict of the settings page with the settings page of the Broken Link Checker plugin.. 1.8.0.
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