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John Patterson
The Links Status report in Analytics is providing misleading results. Several of our articles include lists of URLs that our clients must whitelist. We did not format these URLs to be functioning links, we entered them simply as text. The Links Status report, though, is reporting them as "Broken Links" I assume the report simply recognizes the "https://..." format of the URL text and assumes that these are supposed to be links. Perhaps the report could look for links that actually have <a href="..."> tags to decide what is a link?
In addition, the report also includes links to our company LinkedIn and Twitter pages as "broken", but we have confirmed that the links are correct and take users to the correct pages. So it is not clear why they are listed as "broken."
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Thiru
John Patterson we apologize for the late response to this thread however we have fixed this long back. Kindly validate this once and let us know if any concerns.
Whitney Griffin
We are having issues with the report not capturing all broken links (we ran the report Wednesday and it found 134 broken links - today, it only finds 8 broken links) luckily I exported the original report to Excel and many of those ARE still broken, but the report is no longer finding them.
Susie Williams
Also, it's reporting on articles that are hidden. It would be nice to filter those results.
Kimberly Koester
Susie Williams: That's a great observation. We're seeing this too. If you think this is helpful, don't forget to vote. :)
Gerard U
Agree - I ran the tool and return a list of 100 lines. All of them were not broken.
Kimberly Koester
The Links Status report is going to be a great tool, but the data must be accurate for it to be useful to our team. The recommendation to only recognize <a href="..."> is a good one.