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38% of Webpages That Existed in 2013 Are No Longer Accessible a Decade Later


A new Pew Research Center analysis shows just how fleeting online content actually is: 1. A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023. In most cases, this is because an individual page was deleted or removed on an otherwise f...

A new Pew Research Center analysis shows just how fleeting online content actually is: 1. A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023. We examined the links that appear on government and news websites, as well as in the "References" section of Wikipedia pages as of spring 2023.

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