Integrity
An essential app for webmasters; crawls your site reporting broken links.
If you've maintained a website for any length of time, you'll know that links very quickly become broken.
We all move, delete or change pages, and when we do, it not only results in our own internal links breaking, but other people's links to our website becoming broken. Similarly, when other people alter their pages, our own external links become broken.
A broken link on your site is a dead end for your visitors and will also be bad news for your search engine optimisation (SEO).
Unless you enjoy clicking every single link on your site followed by the back button, then you'll need to use a website crawler like Integrity!
Feed it your home page address (url) and Integrity will follow all of your internal links to find your pages, checking the server response code for all internal and external links found.
New:v3.7.2 Exports .dot file (standard format used by graphing applications) which can be opened as a visualisation in third-party graphing apps. includes colour to indicate levels. v3.7.3 allows switching of considering sobdomains to be the same site Full version history for Integrity.
Integrity is donationware, which means that it's available to personal users free of charge with no restrictions. I'm very grateful for donations and if you choose to donate, it will encourage further development of this and other OSX software.
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Download Integrity v3.7.3 for Mac
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System Requirements
Mac OSX 10.4 or higher, Intel or ppc. 10.7 (Lion) supported
What should I do with the downloaded file?
Open the .dmg file and find the application inside. If you want to keep using Integrity, drag and drop it into your Applications folder. To keep it in your dock, right-click or click-and-hold on its dock icon and choose 'Keep in dock'.
Contributors
Developer: Shiela Dixon
Contributors: Uwe Senkler (German localisation)
PC Version?
If you're of the Windows persuasion, use Xenu's Link Sleuth. The developer has made it clear that he's not interested in producing a specific Mac version. I've no connection with Tilman Hausherr (though he seems like a great guy), and this is no more than a personal recommendation to use the Link Sleuth if you're a pc user.
Bugs and enhancements
If you have a problem or suggestion, first see whether the answer is on the FAQs page. You can also see my bug and enhancement list on Scrutiny and Integrity's bug and enhancement list. If your question isn't answered, please see Scrutiny's support page for contact details.
Version History
Version 3.7.3
released November 2011
Links to subdomains can be considered as internal rather than external. ie peacockmedia.co.uk and www.peacockmedia.co.uk are considered the same site (which is not necessarily true but most people would expect) and therefore both are followed. Adds checkbox in global preferences to switch this option. Default is on. With the option on, Integrity will discover more links (and potentially more bad links) on certain websites. Option needs to be switched off if you wish to deliberately limit your crawl to one subdomain
Fixes memory problem, helping application to deal with larger sites
Bug fix and small improvement to 'my sites' drawer
Closing main window quits application after 'are you sure' dialogue
Version 3.7.2
released October 2011
Exports .dot file (standard format used by graphing applications) which can be opened as a visualisation in third-party graphing apps. includes colour to indicate levels. Accessed via File>Export or a new toolbar button added via 'Customize toolbar...'
Fixes problems with 'Re-check broken links' and 'Re-check this link'
Fixes 'on page as title / url' preference (broken in last version)
Adds 'Getting started' to the Help menu and splash screen
replaces 'Bad links' icon with a more suitable one (previous one looks like 'delete')
Fixes glitch with 'Inspect selected' button when flat view is showing
Version 3.7.1
released October 2011
Single version compatible with OSX 10.4 Tiger through to 10.7 Lion (minimum Intel / ppc 10.4)
(since v3.6, an older version, v3.5 was offered to Tiger users)
Improvements to user interface: toolbar - customisation includes space and flexible space, contents of settings tab move to fill the space as main window is resized
Fixes problem of user not being able to get main window open again if closed
Fixes bug causing base href not to be discovered which could lead to many improperly-constructed relative urls
Fixes distance column in flat view
Full version history for Integrity (The full history is also in the release notes included in the app's dmg file)