More recent content lookup are equally alarming:
- In 2023, 38% of all pages created in the previous decade – gone;
- 1 in 5 links on government pages – broken (of which 86% were internal to the sites);
- 32% of links from news site – dead;
- 11% of reference links on Wikipedia – unreachable (with 53% of pages having at least one broken link);
- On social media, 90% of tweets disappeared within 46 days.
The issue is so widespread that it has a name: Link rot.
— Read on tnlnet.substack.com/p/digital-amnesia