38% of web pages from 2013 are no longer available due to digital decay.
A quarter of all web pages between 2013 and 2023 are inaccessible; decay rate increases with time, e.g., 8% of 2023 pages and 38% of 2013 pages are no longer accessible.
23% of news pages and 21% of government websites contain broken links, showing no correlation to page traffic. Wikipedia has 54% of its pages with broken links.
Digital decay results from websites being taken down or pages deleted, affecting bloggers from the 2000s and 2010s who have lost track of their content.
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