Broken images in Joomla articles

Details

A broken image shows as a gap or an icon, and audit tools report both the image and every page that uses it.

Why Joomla sites get it

In Joomla, images usually break when a file is renamed, moved or deleted in the Media manager while articles still point at the old path, when a site moves to or from a subfolder, or when an article uses an image hosted on another site that has since removed it.

Fix it by hand

  1. Find the broken images. You can check pages one by one in a browser, but on a large site you need a crawler.
  2. Put the file back at its old path, or edit each article to use the new one.
  3. For images from other sites, upload a copy to your own Media manager if you are allowed to.

Fix it with MetaGen

MetaGen’s site scan checks every image used in your published articles. Images on your own site are checked on disk, and images on other sites are requested. The Broken images row lists each one with the articles that use it and a link to edit them.

MetaGen is free for Joomla 5 and 6. See all the SEO warnings MetaGen checks.

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