static site checker

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introduction

ssc (static site checker) is an opinionated HTML nitpicker, intended for people, like its author, who hand code websites.

It doesn’t just check static sites for broken links, dubious syntax, and bad semantic data, it will actively complain about things that are perfectly legal but rather untidy—like its author.

Except when serving CGI queries, it recursively scans your chosen directory seeking HTML & related files to verify. It produces a list of errors, warnings, and other hints of imperfection.

SSC only nitpicks the static components of sites. Scripts are ignored.

It should not be used on untrusted content; its parsers are holier than Robin’s cow.

current downloads

WARNING: these downloads are unsigned (an issue being addressed). If that worries you, the current source is also available on github, where you can grab it to build ssc yourself.

Older source versions can be downloaded from this page.

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Dylan Harris
August 2025