Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web
- TL;DR: A Pew Research Center study found that 38% of webpages from a decade ago, and about 25% of pages sampled across the decade, are now inaccessible; our analysis shows that the Wayback Machine has rescued roughly 15% of those otherwise dead pages.
- In 2024, the Pew Research Center published a link-rot study, “When Online Content Disappears”.
- They stated, “38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later”.
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- TL;DR: A Pew Research Center study found that 38% of webpages from a decade ago, and about 25% of pages sampled across the decade, are now inaccessible; our analysis shows that the Wayback Machine has rescued roughly 15% of those otherwise dead pages.
- In 2024, the Pew Research Center published a link-rot study, “When Online Content Disappears”.
- They stated, “38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later”.
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