Dead Links (Cloud)
Verifies external links through the cloud dead-links service with a shared global cache
Verifies external links through the cloud dead-links service, which shares a global link-check cache across all audits.
| Rule ID | links/dead-links |
| Category | Links |
| Scope | Site-wide |
| Severity | info |
| Weight | 1/10 |
| Default | Enabled |
What it does
This rule is the enable gate for cloud external-link checking. When it’s enabled and you’re logged in, the audit’s external-link phase routes through the cloud service instead of fetching every link from your machine:
- Shared global cache - links checked by any recent audit (yours or anyone’s) return instantly from cache, so repeat audits are much faster and third-party sites aren’t hammered.
- Fresh results - working links are cached for 7 days, failures for 24 hours.
- Same report shape - broken links found this way are detailed by
links/broken-external-links, exactly as with local checking.
If an audit’s estimated dead-link spend exceeds your confirm_threshold, you’re prompted before the phase runs. Declining (or being logged out) falls back to local per-link checking.
Enable / Disable
Disable cloud link checking (keep local checking)
squirrel.toml
toml[rules]
disable = ["links/dead-links"]Disable external link checking entirely
squirrel.toml
toml[external_links]
enabled = false