By 1995, three years after the birth of the internet, broken links started to irritate viewers to no end.  By 1997 the early broken link scanners were easily available. By 1999 only amateur or incompetent site designers did not kknow how to scan for broken links.

By 2006 several web designers getting paid for their work are victimizing users by not bothering to scan for broken links.  Not giving the client a working site is very far from minimum profesional standards.

Our audit scans your site for broken links using Xenu broken link finder.  You can too, just google on Xenu. 

Here are two samples,sites that are an embarassment to any competent webby.

• Provincetown.ma.gov's broken links. Explicit complaints were made to the webmaster and town manager in 2003 and 2004.  Request for improvement, offers of consulting to repair the broken links,  and offers of training the staff have gone ignored for three years.
  
  Clearly the web designer does not give a damn or (s)he would have gotten rid of them.   It would not take long, a few hours at most, in short, a SLOB.  The  IT Director, Beau Jacket, town manager, Keith Bergman, and councilman Sarah Peake pay no attention to issues with the web sites.  They qualify as managerial or governmental SLOBs.
  
  The sad part is that it would be so easy to fix up the site to something presentable and useful.
  
  There are other problems with the design and implementation.  If the Provincetown.ma.gov site was done by anyone other than free volunteer labor the town taxpayers got ripped off.
  

• A successful Lower Cape web design firm does all the right things, spends money on WOMR, donates to causes and advertises heavily.  Unfortunately , they are not very good at what they do.  Some of the sites they and bill people for are junk.  They qualify as SLOBs.
   
  How would you like to try to order something and have the site take you to a broken link page and say "FU" that is to say fouled up.  Broken  eCommerce Links are the worst.

I'll make the first ten responders a bet. Email us your site name, URL and we can scan it.  If there are three or less broken links you get a report and owe nothing.  If there are more than three broken links you pay $50 for the report, which you can take to your web firm and perhaps get $500 in credit as long as you sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Email us if you'd like more of these.  For sites with broken links, the Cape is a target rich environment.