A Check My Links alternative that keeps blocked links separate from broken ones.
Check My Links is a simple, popular free extension — and for many pages it’s all you need. Here’s where Linkcrisp works differently, measured on the same pages on the same day.
What we tested
On October 30, 2026 we ran both extensions on the same three pages in a clean Chrome profile: a Wikipedia list with about 1,700 links, a bakery site on WordPress, and react.dev. Then we opened every link marked broken in a normal browser to see whether it really was. The samples are small (18–31 flagged links per tool), so treat the numbers as indicative, not as a benchmark.
| Linkcrisp | Check My Links 8.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Flagged “broken” links that were really broken | 30 of 31 | 5 of 19 |
| Sites that block automated checks (403, 429, 999) | Separate “Couldn’t verify” list | Marked broken |
mailto: links | Skipped | Marked invalid |
| The same link repeated on a page | Checked once | Checked each time |
| Wikipedia page, ~1,700 links | 70–139 s | 360 s |
| Where the link is | Outlined on the page; click in the list to scroll to it | Every link colored on the page, code next to it |
| Whole-site scan | Yes — sitemap or crawl, with the pages each link is on | No |
| Export | CSV (7 columns) and a client-ready HTML report | CSV (3 columns); more with a paid key |
| Site access | Asked the first time you check | Granted at install |
| On install | Opens a one-screen “try it” page | Opens the developer’s product page |
Accuracy on 207 pages we hadn’t tuned it on
We then ran Linkcrisp alone on 207 real pages it had never been tuned on — WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, Wix and Webflow sites, small-business sites, documentation, news, university pages, non-English sites and old link-heavy pages — and rechecked every link it marked broken with a separate request and a clean browser. About 9 in 10 were really broken (576 of 640, October 31, 2026). Nearly all the rest were links to big news and shopping sites that turn automated checks away; open one in a tab to confirm. In the other direction, only 1 broken link in about 600 was shown as working.
Where Check My Links is better
- It’s been around for years and has a large user base and many reviews.
- It checks links inside frames on the page; Linkcrisp checks the main page.
- It lets you recheck a single link from the results table.
When to use which
If you check one page now and then and the occasional false alarm doesn’t bother you, Check My Links is fine. If you clean up a whole site, audit sites for clients, or your pages link to social networks and shops that turn automated checks away, keeping those links out of your broken list saves the most time.
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