Uptime and performance checks tell you whether a site responds and how quickly it loads. They can still leave broken links, missing images, and failed embeds undetected.
Content Health checks those parts of your published content.
Links, images, and embeds can fail while the rest of a page keeps working. Visitors and search engines then encounter dead ends in content that still appears published.
Why Broken Links Comes First
Broken links are difficult to track manually as a site grows. Each one needs a decision about what the reader should find instead.
Where does the link live? Is it internal or external? Was the destination removed intentionally? Should you fix, replace, redirect, or leave it alone?
An exported CSV can identify a failure, but you still need to locate and edit the affected content.
Broken Links in Scanfully scans your site from the outside, following the links on published pages. It checks internal and external links, reports the HTTP response, and shows which page contains the problem. The scans do not run against your internal WordPress database.
Click the edit link to open the relevant WordPress content and make the repair.
What Broken Links Actually Shows You
Our Broken Links Monitor shows:
- Which page contains the broken link
- Whether the link is internal or external
- The title and target URL
- The HTTP status code returned
This makes it possible to prioritize properly. Internal links usually come first. Dofollow links matter more than nofollow ones. External links returning 403 errors often mean blocking, not actual breakage.
Why We Scan From the Outside
Tools that scan inside WordPress may query your database and store results locally. That adds scanning and storage work to the site.
We scan from the outside. We don’t store content data inside WordPress. And we report what a real visitor or crawler would experience when following a link.
Content Health Is Bigger Than Links
Broken Links is the first feature, not the end goal.
Content Health checks parts of a published page that can fail while the site remains available.
That’s why we also have a Broken Media Monitor.
Broken Media focuses on images, PDFs, embeds, and other media that fail silently. Files may be removed, external embeds may change behavior, or permissions may shift. The content stays published, but parts of it no longer work.
Broken Media will report those issues with direct links back to the affected content, following the Broken Links workflow.
The Direction We’re Taking
Broken Links is the first step, with Broken Media next. We also plan to check form validation and e-commerce paths.
If you’re already using Scanfully, you can find Broken Links in your dashboard today. You can find the FAQs here, and help with the settings here.
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