Follow a number hop by hop, from your blog to the page it cited, to that page’s source, until the chain ends. Deterministic by default, built into the LiquiChart claim workflow so every trace stays tied to content you actually track.
Six things a link checker cannot.
Follow a stat from a blog post to its source, then to that source’s source, and so on, up to 10 hops, until the chain terminates.
Every chain ends in a classified terminus: primary source, paywalled, attribution-without-link, broken link, circular citation, value mutated, and more.
A single 0–100 number for the chain. Higher means closer to a primary source. Lower means you should probably not cite this.
Catches when a number drifts between hops, for example a 35% stat that became 37% somewhere in the chain because someone rounded.
HTTP and regex matching resolve most chains with no model in the loop. A lightweight language-model check runs only on the ambiguous value matches, so scans stay fast and low-cost.
On paid plans, a cron re-traces chains on a schedule so you see the day a primary source gets paywalled, removed, or updated.
Tracing runs inside the claim loop. You add a URL, we extract the stats, and every claim gains a trace button.
Add any URL you cite to LiquiChart. We fetch the page, extract the data claims it makes, and keep an eye on it.
Every stat on the page becomes a trackable claim. You decide which ones matter enough to watch.
On any approved claim, click Scan Now. The tracer follows its source citation hop by hop and reports the terminus.
Add any URL you cite to LiquiChart. We fetch the page, extract the data claims it makes, and keep an eye on it.
Every stat on the page becomes a trackable claim. You decide which ones matter enough to watch.
On any approved claim, click Scan Now. The tracer follows its source citation hop by hop and reports the terminus.
Link checkers test URLs. This tests citation chains.
| Feature | LiquiChart | Link Checker |
|---|---|---|
| Catches broken links | ||
| Catches "URL works, data gone" | ||
| Detects circular citations | ||
| Identifies paywalled chains | ||
| Reports primary-source depth | ||
| Re-traces on a schedule |
Start free with one monitored page, trace citations on Pro with scheduled retraces across 10 pages, and scale to Visionary for 200 pages plus full multi-hop chain auto-enrollment: the whole dependency tree behind every source monitors itself.