Hi @b-summers
I hope you’re well today and thank you for contacting us!
Technically speaking, when the scan is running it’s very similar to what search engine crawlers do: there’s a crawler on our end that visits your site and scans it for links to make a list of those links and then we make basic GET requests (so, essentially, we try to “visit” them) to those URLS. Then we check HTTP response code and based on that report whether the link is valid or it appears to be possibly broken for some reason.
The scan will not run continuously, though.
There is an option to schedule scans which is, by default, disabled. Your screenshots are not showing that setting so I’m not sure if it’s set but until it is – plugin will not initiate any scans unless you actually click on “Run new scan”.
To set scheduled scans (so plugin would automatically check links), please go to the “Link Checker -> Cloud (new)” page and you’ll see the “Schedule scan” section there, click on a little “+” icon there and you’ll be able to add report recipients and set frequency.
If you already have it set and there’s still no results and/or there’s no results after you manually click “Run new scan”, then it would mean that there is some unexpected issue.
In such case I would need to know the URL of your site (the one where plugin is installed on) so please share it. This way we’ll be able to check logs on our end and that would, hopefully, give us some additional insights on why it’s not working correctly.
Kind regards,
Adam
