Link audit

Find orphaned pages and broken internal links.

Link audit

The lazysite-audit.pl script scans the docroot for orphaned pages (pages that exist but are not linked from anywhere) and broken internal links (links pointing to pages that do not exist).

Invocation

perl plugins/audit.pl [options] [docroot]

The docroot defaults to the current directory.

Options

• --exclude path,path,... - comma-separated canonical paths to exclude from the orphan report (e.g., --exclude index,404)
• --exclude-file FILE - file containing one exclusion per line

What it scans

• All .md files for Markdown link syntax and HTML href/src attributes
• Cached .html files for .url pages (since remote content is not re-fetched)
• All .tt files under lazysite/templates/ for template links

What it skips

• External links (http://, https://)
• Mailto links, fragment-only links (#), data URIs
• Asset file extensions (images, fonts, CSS, JS, PDFs, archives, media)
• Paths starting with assets/
• Links containing TT variables ([%)
• Files in the lazysite/ directory (system files)

Report format

ORPHANED PAGES (N)
  /path          source-file.md

BROKEN LINKS (N)
  source-file.md  -> /target

SUMMARY
  Source pages:    N
  Orphaned:        N
  Broken links:    N

Default exclusions

404 and index (root page) are always excluded from the orphan report.

Notes

• Canonical paths strip the file extension and normalise /index to the parent path
• The audit is read-only - it does not modify any files
• Run after adding new pages to find unlinked content