Introduction text

Link checking is a crucial aspect of website maintenance and quality assurance. In the context of websites, external links are hyperlinks that point to pages or resources outside the domain of the website. These links are valuable for providing additional information, references, or collaborations. However, they can become problematic if they break or lead to irrelevant, non-existent content or worse. 

However, maintaining links on your website can be quite cumbersome. Broken links are a bad user experience and might harm your website's SEO of too many internal links end in a 404 - page not found.

If the links are pointing to your website either from an external webpage or your website, you can use tools like the Google Search Console or the Joomla redirection component to report broken links.

However, if you have links pointing from your website to another there is no way to find these, other than visiting all your pages and checking all the links. Until now.

And even with a report on broken external and internal links pointing to your site, it can be a pain to find the links on your site. The destination of a link is often clear, the source not.

The component also allows finding and editing empty ALT attributes within your Joomla website.

At some moment, this extension was named  'Broken Link Checker for Joomla'. In retrospect, a more proper name would be the more simple 'Link checking and reporting for Joomla'.  As it does not only check broken links, it finds, checks and reports any links in your Joomla content. 

This Joomla version is inspired on and developed from the Broken Link Checker for WordPress.