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Fast Link Checker 1.5 - User Guide and FAQ

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Getting started

Checking links on a site

To start checking links, enter the address of the site into the URL field, set the necessary values for other parameters and click the Start button. You can click the Pause button to pause the process or the Stop button to stop it.

Fast Link Checker will download the page specified in the URL field, extract all links from it and try to open each of them one by one to check their availability. After Fast Link Checker checks all links on the current page, it will move on to other pages in the order they are detected in the first file.

The program puts all links it finds onto the Found Links list. Then it tries to open them and puts the results of these attempts onto the Processing list along with all additional information it receives from the server when opening the link. If the program finds a broken link, it puts it onto the Broken Links list with the information about the page where it was found, its position on the page and a possible cause why it does not work.

Checking links on a single page of a site

To check links on one page of a site, enter the address of this page into the URL field, select the Only check links in the first URL option and click the Start button. You can click the Pause button to pause the process or the Stop button to stop it.

Fast Link Checker will download the page specified in the URL field, extract all links from it and try to open them one by one to check their availability. After Fast Link Checker checks all links on the current page, it will finish its work.

Setting up a connection via a proxy server

At present, Fast Link Checker supports the following types of proxy servers: HTTP, SOCKS4, SOCKS4A and SOCKS5.

To change the settings of a proxy server, open the Connection tab in the Settings dialog and check the Use a proxy server option, after that select the type of the proxy server, enter its address and port number. If your proxy server requires authentication, check the Use authentication for the server option and enter your username and password in the corresponding input fields.

Configuring user agent identification

Fast Link Checker allows you to use the User agent identification option on the Connection tab in the Settings dialog box to specify the user agent name. This option allows you to specify the name of the user agent the program will use when requesting files from a web server. This option can be useful if some web server gives different information to different Internet browsers, i.e. it shows the standard contents for Internet Explorer and the content that is better displayed in Netscape for Netscape.

You can also configure Fast Link Checker to identify itself as a certain user agent for you to be able to see its visits in your web server log files.

Creating and saving reports

Fast Link Checker allows you to generate reports about the links checked on the site. The report can include information about all links found on the site, about links either to hypertext documents only or to graphic objects only, as well as all broken links.

You can save such a report in the following formats: html, csv (Excel), text (tab delimited), text (comma delimited). Each found link is accompanied by the following information (customizable): URL, Title, Status, Protocol, Content-type, etc.

To generate a report about the work of the program, select Export data... from the Reports menu, specify the parameters you need in the report and click the Export data button to start generating the report.

Frequently Asked Questions - Fast Link Checker

What is Fast Link Checker?
Fast Link Checker is used for searching sites for broken links. It works like a robot of a search engine (Googlebot, MSNBot, WISENutbot, Alexa, etc.). You specify the file to start checking from and Fast Link Checker goes through all pages this file has links to until it checks all links on the site. If Fast Link Checker finds a broken link, it shows its position in the document, the cause why it does not work and a hint how it can be fixed.
Why is it important?
One of the most important indicators of a high-quality site is absence of broken links. There is nothing worse for a user than coming across either a link that leads nowhere or an empty square instead of an image. Broken links ruin your reputation and bring down your rating on search engines.
How do I protect Fast Link Checker settings from reinstalls, upgrades or operating system crashes?
Fast Link Checker keeps all its settings in the "Fast Link Checker" folder located in your "Application Data" directory. In order to save Fast Link Checker settings you can copy these files somewhere else and when you'll need to restore Fast Link Checker settings you must these files back to your "Application Data" directory.
Can I set different location for Fast Link Checker settings?
Fast Link Checker uses registry key to allow override its settings files location. Specify directory where settings files are located in the string value "SettingsDir" in the key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WebTweakTools\FastLinkChecker" of the system registry and restart program. In the specified directory Fast Link Checker will keep file settings.ini with its settings and folder AutoSave with auto-saved data.
Why Size/Last modified fields in the list are empty sometimes?
These fields are depending on the server. They are empty when the server did not return their values.

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