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Link rot: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later

https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

“[W]e collected a random sample of 50,000 English-language Wikipedia pages and examined the links in their “References” section. The vast majority of these pages (82%) contain at least one reference link – that is, one that directs the reader to a webpage other than Wikipedia itself.

In total, there are just over 1 million reference links across all the pages we collected. The typical page has four reference links.

The analysis indicates that 11% of all references linked on Wikipedia are no longer accessible. On about 2% of source pages containing reference links, every link on the page was broken or otherwise inaccessible, while another 53% of pages contained at least one broken link.”


OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Klaus Graf (21. Mai 2024). Link rot: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later. Archivalia. Abgerufen am 20. April 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/11p30


Autor: Klaus Graf

Historiker und Archivar, Blogger

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