The site directory is useful to list all sites created.

When activated, when you will create a new site it will be automatically listed in a list which is called
“Sites”. To find it, when you are in the “site directory” go to “site actions” -> “view all site content”.

It can be really useful for the content management process, you will be able to say in real-time how many sites have been created or deleted. With some little customisation and maintenance you can put admin names, contact or purpose of the sites.

It can be a good way of tracking changes in a content migration or creation process.

One feature of the site directory is that you can check “in live” if no site has been deleted, to do it simply go to the “site directory” -> “site actions” -> “scan for broken links”, it will update the site list.

Scan for Broken Links

But, it will only check for broken links to sites, not for pages.
It’s only a way to manage a list of site.
A broken link in that case is: “The site has been deleted but it still in the list of sites of the site directory”

It will not scan all pages to find which one are ok or not and that’s a pity.

Sorry for those who thought that they will easily found all 404 pages

My next post, will be about enabling and configuring a “site directory”.