Shopify
Broken link checker for Shopify
How a Shopify broken link checker differs from recording live 404 visits, and when a single-URL check is the right tool.
A broken link checker usually fetches pages and reports every href that fails. That can be useful before a launch. On an established Shopify store it also produces a long list of URLs that no customer is using. 404Guard takes the other cut: record the 404s that already received a visitor, then help you redirect the ones that matter.
Crawl results versus visits
A crawler might flag a product you deleted, a typo buried in a three-year-old blog post, and a URL that only exists in an old sitemap. Some of those deserve a redirect. Many do not, until a person requests them. Visit counts are the priority. Sources tell you whether the request came from Google, from another site, or from a page you control.
Check one URL
When you already have a URL and want its status, use the redirect checker. It shows the HTTP status, each hop, and the final URL. The URL status checker is the shorter view: 200 OK, a redirect, 404 Not Found, or 500 Server Error. Both accept public http and https URLs only. They are not a site crawler, and they will not walk your catalog.
Fix the ones with traffic
Inside Shopify Admin, 404Guard can suggest a destination from your current products and collections and create the redirect there. A match score is a text comparison, so you still confirm the target. Create a redirect describes the loop check.
If you want the ongoing list rather than a one-off check, install 404Guard. It stays free, and it does not add a second SEO suite on top of the 404 list.