The site's effectiveness is impaired and becomes worse if these problems aren't fixed. A recent study by Georgia Tech University states that broken web site links are also net surfers biggest headache. Faced with increasingly frustrated visitors, webmasters are spending hours tracking down broken links, or even worse just leaving their sites to deteriorate over time. The average site has 254 pages and over 600 links. To check a site of that size takes a long time, a dedicated computer and someone to oversee the process.
Most people looking after web sites have more pressing tasks.
Checks of site quality are therefore often forced down the priority list. The LinkAlarm service helps the web administration staff by regularly checking all the links on a web site and emailing a summary about the link failures. The person in charge of the content is empowered to fix the problems using their LinkAlarm report from anywhere on the web. The webmaster is then free to concentrate on other tasks secure in the knowledge that LinkAlarm will provide an alert when errors are next detected. A recent LinkAlarm survey of 300 web sites underscored the need for regular link checking on larger web sites.