How do you check a link?

We open the page your text links to and look for the number you put next to it. If the page says it, we say so. If the page does not say it, we show you the closest sentence that is actually there, so you can see the difference yourself.

Does it tell me if a number is false?

No, and that is on purpose. We only tell you what the page you linked to says. A number can be completely true and still sit behind a link that does not show it, which is the most common problem we find.

What about numbers with no link?

We list them. Across eleven real statistics posts we measured, about half the numbers had no source of any kind, which is usually the largest group in a document.

Yes. You can paste a post and check it without an account.

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Does your source really say that?

Paste your article. We open every link and check that the page really says it.

How we check a link, and what we found in 114 real numbers

A real example

A big SEO site wrote this. It is still up.

The figure is on the page, attached to something else.13 of 59 claims we audited.

Published article claimSEO blog article (2024)

The article says

61.5% of desktop searches and 34.4% of mobile searches end without a click.

Subjects swapped61.5% desktop · 34.4% mobile

Original primary sourceIndependent research post (2018)

The page they link to says

61.5% of mobile searches and 34.3% of desktop searches end without a click.

What the page shows61.5% mobile · 34.3% desktop

The words are swapped, and one number is rounded differently. No spell check or editor would catch it. Half the numbers in posts like this have no link at all, and we list those too. It was 55 of 114 in the articles we read.

How we check a link

When we cannot check

We tell you which kind of nothing.

Not every link can be opened. Each one gets a reason, and each reason is something your reader will hit too. The counts are from 114 numbers we read across 11 articles.

No link at all

Nothing to open, so nothing to check. This is the largest group in every article we have read, and the one writers are most surprised by.

In our audit55 of 114 48.2%

Behind a paywall

We are stopped at the same wall your reader is stopped at. The link is real and it still does not let anyone check you.

In our audit20 of 114 17.5%

Dead link

The page is gone. Your reader clicks it and lands on nothing, or on a product page that never carried the number.

In our audit3 of 114 2.6%

Live dashboard

The page only ever shows today. The number your reader sees is not the number you wrote, and neither of you is wrong.

In our audit2 of 114 1.8%

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