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Why We Are Here => Web Development => Topic started by: rcjordan on May 18, 2024, 01:14:38 PM

Title: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
Post by: rcjordan on May 18, 2024, 01:14:38 PM
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

Link Rot and Digital Decay on Government, News and Other Webpages | Pew Research Center
Title: Re: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
Post by: buckworks on May 19, 2024, 01:40:20 AM
A related problem is old URLs which still exist but have different, unrelated content now.
Title: Re: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
Post by: rcjordan on May 19, 2024, 02:09:41 AM
>different, unrelated content now

That's a problem within AMZ now.  A vendor will discontinue a product and substitute another --sometimes similar, but often not related-- product.  I come across this when I go to 'buy again' from past orders.
Title: Re: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
Post by: ergophobe on May 20, 2024, 04:37:54 PM
I'm surprised the numbers are that low.

What happened in 2017? Is that just sampling error?
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