Dr. Link Check review
A focused crawler for broken-link, SSL, blacklist, and soft-error audits.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Dr. Link Check is a web-based website crawler for site owners and teams that need to audit links and site resources. It crawls HTML and CSS, checks broken links and HTTP responses, validates SSL certificates and expiry, checks phishing and malware blacklists, and detects soft errors from misleading 2xx responses. Its include and exclude rules, filtering, exports, and recurring email reports suit small and mid-market teams focused on website health audits rather than broad infrastructure monitoring.
Pricing follows a freemium model with four monthly plans. Lite costs $0 per month and provides one-time checks only. Standard costs $13 per month and adds recurring monthly or biweekly checks plus Google Safe Browsing blacklist checks. Professional costs $49 per month and adds weekly checks, PhishTank blacklist checks, and CSV and PDF exports. Premium costs $159 per month and adds daily checks and additional blacklist sources. Paid plans also add recurring monitoring, larger link quotas, and more projects. The plan structure makes Standard a practical starting point for scheduled audits, while Professional and Premium fit teams needing more frequent checks or broader reporting and blacklist coverage.
The product’s strength is its focused coverage of broken, unsafe, and misleading links, with SSL validation and resource discovery extending the audit beyond simple URL checks. It can email results from scheduled checks and supports reports that can be filtered or exported. However, its scope is narrower than a full uptime platform: latency, status pages, maintenance features, API access, and integrations are outside the listed capabilities. Teams primarily responsible for content and resource quality should choose Dr. Link Check; teams seeking wider operational monitoring should consider a broader platform.
Dr. Link Check pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Crawls HTML and CSS to find broken links and resources
- Checks SSL certificates, blacklists, HTTP responses, and soft errors
- Adds scheduled checks, URL rules, filtering, exports, and email reports
- Where it doesn't
- The Lite plan supports one-time checks only
- Available as a web-based service rather than a desktop application
- Narrower than full uptime platforms for latency and operational monitoring
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