diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index f4aa063e0d..a4d35ed96e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - run: make url_check
       - run: make awesome_lint
       - run: make export
+      - run: make url_check
diff --git a/.hecat/url-check.yml b/.hecat/url-check.yml
index de4327ce66..4ba80e5648 100644
--- a/.hecat/url-check.yml
+++ b/.hecat/url-check.yml
@@ -12,5 +12,6 @@ steps:
         - source_code_url
         - website_url
         - demo_url
+      errors_are_fatal: True
       exclude_regex:
         - '^https://github.com/[\w\.\-]+/[\w\.\-]+$' # don't check URLs that will be processed by the github_metadata module
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 59c47147fa..8da8fa4dca 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -22,11 +22,6 @@ update_metadata: install
 	source .venv/bin/activate && \
 	hecat --config .hecat/update-metadata.yml
 
-.PHONY: url_check # check URLs for dead links or other connection problems
-url_check: install
-	source .venv/bin/activate && \
-	hecat --config .hecat/url-check.yml
-
 .PHONY: awesome_lint # check data against awesome-selfhosted guidelines
 awesome_lint: install
 	source .venv/bin/activate && \
@@ -39,6 +34,11 @@ export: install
 	hecat --config .hecat/export.yml
 	cd awesome-selfhosted && git diff --color=always
 
+.PHONY: url_check # check URLs for dead links or other connection problems
+url_check: install
+	source .venv/bin/activate && \
+	hecat --config .hecat/url-check.yml
+
 .PHONY: help # generate list of targets with descriptions
 help:
 	@grep '^.PHONY: .* #' Makefile | sed 's/\.PHONY: \(.*\) # \(.*\)/\1	\2/' | expand -t20