Broken Image Checker

The Broken Link Checker follows every <a> link on the page — links to other pages, whether internal or external. This tool checks a completely different set of URLs: every <img> source the page loads. A page can pass one check and fail the other.

A handful of image hosts (Instagram, some CDNs, some stock-photo services) block or rate-limit automated HEAD/GET requests, returning 401, 403, or 429 regardless of whether the image actually exists. Those are reported separately rather than counted as broken, since the check itself was blocked — not necessarily the image.

Indirectly, yes. A broken image is a bad user-experience signal, wastes any alt-text relevance the image could have carried, and if enough images 404 on a page it starts to look neglected — both to visitors and, over time, to how a crawler evaluates the page's overall quality.

Checking every image on a page with hundreds of them would take minutes and put unnecessary load on the target server. The check covers the first batch — typically more than enough to catch a systemic problem like a moved image folder or an expired CDN.

No — only <img> tags (including their src, data-src, and the first candidate in a srcset). Images referenced purely through CSS background-image aren't part of the page's HTML and aren't checked here.