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deadlinkchecker

Name: deadlinkchecker
Author: DLC Websites

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 ↗

GoodBot

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

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.