Social Media Checker

The Social Media Checker is a free tool that scans any public website and reports which of the eight major social platforms — Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, TikTok, and GitHub — it links to. Instead of manually clicking through a site's header and footer looking for icons, you get a clear found or not-found breakdown for every platform, with a direct link to open each profile that was detected, so you can verify it's the right account in a click.

It exists because social presence is one of the easiest things to check for both your own site and a competitor's, but tedious to verify by hand across many pages or many domains. Whether you're auditing your own site after a redesign to confirm the social icons survived the migration, or researching how a competitor presents itself across platforms, this scan gives you the full picture from a single page in seconds rather than clicking through the site yourself.

When you submit a website, the tool fetches the page's live HTML and parses every outbound link it contains, then checks each one against the domains used by the eight platforms this tool covers. Links that match a genuine profile pattern are recorded as found, while generic share buttons, embed widgets, and other links that merely point at the same domain without being an actual profile link are filtered out so they don't create a false positive.

This check reflects a single page's HTML at the moment you run it — by default that means whichever URL you enter, so scanning a page other than the homepage may miss links that only appear elsewhere on the site. It also does not execute JavaScript, so social links injected purely client-side after page load may not be detected even if they're visible in a browser.

• Treat social links as a trust signal, not decoration. Visitors often check a brand's social profiles before trusting it, and a site with no social links visible anywhere can quietly look less established than one with them.
• Put social icons somewhere consistent, like the header or footer. Links buried deep in a page or added only inconsistently across the site are easy for both visitors and this kind of scan to miss entirely.
• Prioritize consistency over platform count. A few actively maintained profiles linked from your site build more trust than a long row of icons pointing at accounts that haven't posted in years.
• Only link to profiles you actually maintain. An abandoned or inactive account linked from your homepage can leave a worse impression on a visitor than not linking to that platform at all.