Free 404 & Soft 404 Checker
We follow public internal links to check for missing pages and successful responses that look like missing pages.
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Free-check limit
Free checks are limited to one per site per hour. Limits also apply to your connection and the service as a whole.
Hourly and daily allowances apply. No new scan started, so this message tells you nothing about your website’s condition.
The $39 Technical Diagnostic Report investigates your site across the agreed scope, verifies findings and provides affected URLs, evidence, prioritized fixes and next actions.
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Missing pages
If a page is permanently gone and has no replacement, returning 404 is correct. Its existence alone does not mean your website has an SEO problem.
Are visitors still being sent there from your navigation, campaigns or product links?
The customer journey
Imagine someone clicks a product promotion and lands on a missing page. The concern is the interrupted journey, not simply the number of 404s.
Which active campaigns or important links still send visitors to unavailable pages? Lost sales cannot be inferred from a status code alone.
Illustrative scenario, not a measured loss.
A common workaround
Redirecting every missing URL to the homepage can confuse visitors and search engines. Google warns that this can create soft 404s.
Someone looking for a specific product may land somewhere unrelated. A relevant replacement or a useful missing-page response gives a clearer path.
Check complete
We show up to two examples, not the full list of affected URLs.
This check cannot establish Google’s Search Console classification or clear URLs we could not discover or check.
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The $39 Technical Diagnostic Report investigates what is happening across your permitted site scope, verifies findings, and provides affected URLs, evidence, prioritized fixes and next actions.
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Starting from your homepage and submitted page, we follow eligible public internal HTML links. We flag HTTP 404/410 responses and potential soft 404s: HTTP 200 paired with clear missing-page text in both the title and main heading. Two generated missing paths separately test whether missing URLs redirect to the homepage.
The crawl continues after findings are detected. Results show the number of site URLs checked, discovered URLs still unchecked, and unresolved responses. Only up to two findings and four response examples are displayed. Generated paths are labelled separately and are never reported as discovered broken links.
Understand soft 404s and the Search Console warningUse this as an initial check of how your website handles missing URLs, or test a specific public page that looks missing despite loading successfully. Blocked access, unavailable robots rules, timeouts, JavaScript-only content, ambiguous HTML and unsupported responses can prevent a reliable result. Thin content alone is not treated as a soft 404.
We continue until the eligible discovered links have been checked. The crawl saves progress and resumes in batches. Larger sites take longer, and a busy service may pause your job until capacity is available. We email the sample findings after the crawl finishes. A 100,000-URL discovery safeguard prevents unbounded link spaces; any discovery stop is disclosed. We exclude query/action URLs, private areas and files, and respect robots rules. JavaScript-only links, full sitemap discovery, root-cause investigation and prioritized fixes are outside this check. A limit or access failure is shown as incomplete coverage.
The Soft 404 guide explains the warning and repair paths. A Findmetry Technical Diagnostic Report investigates the issue, its observed scope and recommended fixes.
