Link rot study finds more than 1/3 websites from 2013 are gone
A study of digital decay, the phenomenon of websites slowly vanishing from the web, found that 38 percent of the sites that were online in 2013 are now gone. When Online Content Disappears found that 8% of sites from just two years ago are no longer accessible. The phenomenon was tracked via link rot from news sites and wikipedia.
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