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March 8, 2026

# Image URL Checker: Common Mistakes and Best Practices

Most problems with image URL Checker aren't caused by not knowing what to do — they're caused by small, easy-to-miss mistakes that compound quietly over time. Here are the ones that come up most often.

Mistake 1: Leaving `alt=""` on meaningful images purely out of habit — empty alt text should be reserved for genuinely decorative images only.

Mistake 2: Not checking image URLs on paginated or filtered category pages, where broken thumbnails are easy to miss during a manual review.

Mistake 3: Relying on a CDN indefinitely without a fallback — if the CDN goes down, every image on the site does too.

The fix for most of these isn't more effort, it's a regular check. A few habits that prevent them from creeping back in:
- Serve images over HTTPS on an HTTPS page — mixed content warnings from HTTP images can block rendering in some browsers.
- Compress and lazy-load below-the-fold images; broken links aside, oversized images are still one of the top page-speed issues on the web.

Worth reading alongside this: our guide to keyword density, which covers the adjacent side of the same part of a technical SEO audit.

Image URL Checker catches most of this automatically, which is the easiest way to stop these mistakes from shipping in the first place.

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Everything in this guide runs directly in your browser — no signup, no install.

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