Most website monitoring focuses on the obvious problems. Is your site up. Is it fast. Is the server responding. Those things matter, but they only tell part of the story.
Content Health starts where most tools stop.
Over time, content decays. Links break. Images disappear. Embeds stop loading. Nothing crashes, and no alerts fire, but the experience slowly degrades. Visitors click things that don’t work. Search engines hit dead ends. Trust erodes quietly.
That’s the gap Content Health is built to cover.
Why Broken Links Comes First
Broken links are the clearest signal of content decay. They’re easy to ignore, hard to track manually, and surprisingly costly when they pile up.
A broken link forces every site owner into detective work. Where does this link live. Is it internal or external. Was it intentional. Should it be fixed, replaced, redirected, or left alone.
Most tools respond by exporting a CSV file and calling it a day.
We don’t think that helps.
Broken Links in Scanfully scans your site from the outside, just like a visitor or search engine would. It checks both internal and external links, reports the actual HTTP response, and shows you exactly which page contains the problem. No internal database scans. No plugin overhead. No spreadsheet archaeology.
You get clarity first. Action comes naturally after that just by clicking the edit link that brings you straight to the relevant WordPress content.
What Broken Links Actually Shows You
Broken Links focuses on information you can act on, not volume for the sake of volume:
- 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.
Context matters, and Content Health is designed to provide it.
Why We Scan From the Outside
Many broken link tools operate inside WordPress. They crawl your database, store results locally, and grow heavier over time. The result is more work, resource heavy scans, more cleanup, and more performance concerns.
Scanfully works differently.
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.
That keeps your site clean and the results honest.
Content Health Is Bigger Than Links
Broken Links is the first feature, not the end goal.
Content Health exists to monitor the parts of your site that quietly stop working while everything else looks fine. The parts no uptime monitor will ever catch.
That’s why the next feature already in development is Broken Media.
What’s Coming Next: Broken Media
Broken Media focuses on images, PDFs, embeds, and other media that fail silently. Files get removed. External embeds change behavior. Permissions shift. The content stays published, but parts of it no longer work.
Broken Media will surface those issues in the same way Broken Links does. Clear signals. Direct paths back to the source. No exports. No guesswork.
The Direction We’re Taking
Content Health is about reducing uncertainty.
It’s not about generating long reports. It’s not about counting issues for the sake of it. And it’s not about adding more dashboards you have to babysit.
Broken Links is the foundation. Broken Media is next, and much more will follow. Thinks form validation and e-commerce paths. This category will continue to grow in the same direction: helping you trust your content again.
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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