Beta demo. Page Check checks one page at a time, on approved sites only.

Find a broken link before a resident does

A broken link is a signpost pointing down a closed road. A resident clicks “Village Board agenda” and gets “page not found” instead. Page Check finds these for you, shows you how to fix them, and lets you send the details to support in one step.

1. 1. Check your page

   Open Page Check, paste the address of your page (copy it from the bar at the top of your browser), and click Check this page. It takes a few seconds.

   Page Check looks at four things that affect residents:

   What we check	Why it matters to a resident
   Links that go nowhere	They click and get “page not found,” then they phone you.
   Pictures with no description	People who use a screen reader hear nothing for them.
   Photos that are too big	The page loads slowly on phones.
   PDFs that look scanned	Nobody can search them, and screen readers can’t read them.

   The first line of the results tells you how it went, for example “14 links checked. 13 work. 1 needs fixing.” Broken links always come first.

2. 2. Fix it yourself

   Each problem tells you where it is (“Under the heading ‘Upcoming Meetings’”) and how to fix it. For a broken link, the cause is nearly always the file:

   1. Open the page in your website editor.
   2. Click the link and choose the right file.
   3. If the file was never uploaded, upload it first, then choose it.
   4. Save, then click the link yourself to make sure it opens. You can also run Page Check again.

   Broken, slow, or just downloading?

   These three can look alike. Click the link yourself and see which one it is.

   What you see	What it means	What to do
   “Page not found” or another error, every time	Broken	Fix the link, as above.
   A long wait, then it opens, or it opens on the second try	Slow	Nothing to fix on your side. If it’s another organization’s site and it’s still slow tomorrow, tell them or remove the link.
   Nothing seems to happen, but a file appears in your Downloads folder	Downloading	Nothing to fix. Some browsers save PDFs and Word files instead of opening them.

3. 3. Stuck? Send it to support

   Under the results, click Send to support. The form is already filled in with your website, a first draft of your question, and your Page Check report. Add your name and email, check the question, and send.

   You can also copy the link and paste it into an email or a chat. Either way, support gets the same report.

What’s in the report link

• The page we checked, when, and everything we found.
• Technical details about each problem, for support.
• Your browser, your computer or phone’s system, screen and window size, language, time zone, and display settings such as dark mode. These help when a page looks wrong on your screen but fine on theirs.

It doesn’t include your name, email or IP address. Anyone with the link can open it, and it stops working after 30 days.

Good to know

• Page Check is in beta. It checks one page at a time, and only on approved sites.
• It checks what your website sends, not what you see after logging in, so pages behind a password can’t be checked.
• “Looks scanned” is a good guess, not a certainty. If you made the PDF from Word and it’s flagged, tell support.

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