Reviewing your results

After a scan, every finding appears in two views. Each is built from your pages' real rendered output - the links and images that actually shipped to visitors, not a list read out of your database.

The two views

• By URL - every unique link, image and resource found across your site, each with a single verdict and a count of how many pages use it. This is the fastest way to fix a broken link once and clear it everywhere it appears.
• By page - every scanned page, with its own Issues, Warnings and Notices counts. This is the way to work page by page, or to find the pages in the worst shape.

A summary across the top of both views shows how many URLs were checked, the Issues, Warnings and Notices totals, and the last scan time. Both views are sorted worst-first by default; you can still sort by any column.

The verdicts

Findings are split by severity, so advisory items are never counted as problems:

• Issues (critical) - a broken link or image: a 404 or other error, a host that cannot be reached, or (on Premium) a destination flagged as a soft error or by Safe Browsing.
• Warnings - worth fixing but not broken: an SSL or certificate problem, a permanent redirect (the link still works but points at an old address), or a host that is blocked, not broken.
• Notices - advisory: a temporary redirect, for example.
• OK - the link or image resolved cleanly.

Blocked, not broken is an important distinction: some hosts (for example sites behind Cloudflare) challenge automated requests. The plugin tells these apart from genuine failures so you are not chasing false positives. On Premium you can set the browser user-agent to reduce how often this happens.

Finding details

Click any finding - a row in either view, or a count badge - to open its details.

It shows:

• Where it appears. For a broken URL, the list of pages that use it, so you know the full blast radius of a single fix.
• The evidence. The verdict in plain terms (for example "404 Not Found", "SSL certificate expired", or "redirects to ...") taken from the actual response.
• Quick actions:
  • View page - opens the live page in a new tab.
  • Edit page - jumps to the WordPress editor for that page.
  • View source - re-renders the page and highlights the exact link or image in context, so you can see precisely where it lives (see below).
  • Ignore - stops a URL counting while leaving it visible; reverse it any time from the Ignored view.

View source

The single most useful tool for tracking down a mystery link is View source. It re-renders the page and highlights the offending link or image right where it appears in the HTML - so you can tell instantly whether it came from your content, a widget, the theme, or a page builder block.

URL parameters

Cache-busters and tracking tags (like ver, utm_source and fbclid) make the same file look like many different URLs. The plugin ignores a built-in list of these so your counts stay stable and each real resource is checked once. You can add your own on the Settings screen.

On Premium, the URL Parameter Learning Engine watches the parameters that flow through your scans and suggests new ones worth ignoring - each with evidence, a live example you can open both ways, and a one-click "add". See Plans and premium features.

Changes, filters and export (Premium)

Paid plans add more ways to work through results:

• Change detection - after each scan, a summary shows what newly broke, what changed, and what was fixed since the last scan.
• One-click filters and CSV export - narrow the results to a specific issue type and export any view.
• Scheduled scans and email reports - run scans automatically and get the results, with the changes digest, by email.

The free plugin shows everything in the two views and the finding details.