Xenu's Link Sleuth for Windows

Review of Xenu’s Link Sleuth

Xenu's Link SleuthTM is a powerful web-based spidering tool that finds broken hyperlinks on Web pages. It can be used to locate broken hyperlinks in HTML and CGI, Perl, JavaScript, and many other languages. Link checking can be done on text/html, frames, pictures and hyperlinks. It also checks for plug-ins, stylesheets scripts, scripts, local image maps, and stylesheets. You can search pages using a variety of parameters, including keywords and meta tags.

This tool will find broken hyperlinks in all these areas, and provide details about where the link was located. It will find broken hyperlinks, missing closing tag, missing file name and missing parenthetical texts, as well as incorrect filenames, missing information, out-of area links, out of date information, incorrect format data. Incorrect flags, invalid URLs, invalid session, security bypass vulnerability, unknown errors, empty URLs, cookies without cookies, invalid sessions, invalid session, security bypass vulnerability, and other problems. Xenu's Link Sleuth uses HTML, XML and compiled JavaScript as resources. This software also has many other resources that can be used to aid users. You can customize some of the features, including sorting, duplicate records, grouping, and others. The software comes with extensive documentation that explains how it works and the options available.

Xenu's Link Sleuth works best for those who have done site analysis and verification or are just beginning to learn about verifying web sites. This program is great for novice users and inexperienced users. It will find broken links and missing hyperlinks without the need to go through the tedious process of linking manually. This program can do all the linking for you, saving you a lot of time. This program is great for web site owners and managers who need to automate link checking and other tasks.