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LinkAfterlife

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Know when a printed QR code or published link stops going where you meant. Checks your links on a schedule, follows every redirect and alerts you when one breaks or lands somewhere unexpected.

Open LinkAfterlife Free during beta

The problem

Printed QR codes, campaign links and newsletter links outlive the pages they point to. A site migration, an expired campaign page or a changed redirect quietly sends people to a 404 or to the wrong place, and nobody notices until a customer mentions it.

What it checks

  • Every hop of the redirect chain: URL, status code and Location header
  • The final URL and final status, compared with a baseline or with the destination you expect
  • Hops added or removed, status changes from 2xx to 4xx or 5xx
  • DNS failures, TLS errors and timeouts
  • QR codes: register the URL a QR code points to, or decode a QR image in your browser (the image is not uploaded)

What you get

A dashboard with the state of every link, a 90-day history per link, and e-mail alerts on broken, changed and recovered links (instantly or as a daily digest).

Who it is for

Marketing teams, agencies and web managers with printed material, campaigns, newsletters or documentation that link to their sites.

What it does not do

  • It does not prove a link works for every visitor. Checks run from one cloud location without cookies or JavaScript, so behaviour that depends on location, device or bot detection can differ.
  • It does not check whether the destination content is correct. Only availability, status codes and redirect behaviour are checked.