Redirect & broken-link review.

What to verify

The health audit follows a bounded set of same-origin HTML links and reports page failures. A migration or large site needs a complete URL inventory and controlled crawler.

1. Fix links that end in 4xx/5xx responses.
2. Remove unnecessary redirect hops and loops.
3. Redirect only to a genuinely equivalent destination.
4. Keep canonical and sitemap URLs on the final preferred host.

How to use this guide

1. Run the free website audit tool. It checks up to five public pages on one website plus its robots and sitemap endpoints, and the result stays in your short-lived session.
2. Verify the finding with owner-controlled data where it exists, such as Search Console, Bing or Chrome UX Report (CrUX) field data. The audit does not submit pages to Google or change the website.
3. Fix the agreed issue, then run the same check again. Mark an issue verified only when it disappears from new evidence.

For the human checks that HTML alone cannot prove, use the website audit checklist.