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deadlinkchecker

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Dead Link Checker is a service which crawls a customer's website reporting on any broken links (404, 500 etc) it finds Operated by DLC Websites.

Operator website ↗

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is deadlinkchecker?

deadlinkchecker is a web crawler operated by DLC Websites. Dead Link Checker is a service which crawls a customer's website reporting on any broken links (404, 500 etc) it finds

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

deadlinkchecker

Operator

DLC Websites

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

deadlinkchecker crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by DLC Websites as part of their monitoring and analytics infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow deadlinkchecker

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for deadlinkchecker in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block deadlinkchecker from crawling your entire site
User-agent: deadlinkchecker
Disallow: /

# Allow deadlinkchecker full access
User-agent: deadlinkchecker
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows deadlinkchecker. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to DLC Websites's documentation.