Link Rot


I've linked to lots of external websites over the years. It would be lovely if all those resources stayed online forever but, sadly, they don't. Websites rearrange content, or it gets deleted, or sites go offline. I periodically check every link on my blog. If a link no longer works, I redirect it to The Internet Archive so that users can see what the link used to point to.

This page automatically updates every few weeks to show how bad the known link rot is on my website. It counts all the links and sees which ones now go to archive.org.

Data

Year Total Links Archived Links %age Archived
2008 159 0 0.00%
2009 1,330 0 0.00%
2010 1,067 117 10.97%
2011 1,127 102 9.05%
2012 1,385 120 8.66%
2013 1,876 127 6.77%
2014 1,854 61 3.29%
2015 3,014 0 0.00%
2016 2,257 81 3.59%
2017 1,301 34 2.61%
2018 1,556 29 1.86%
2019 1,556 0 0.00%
2020 3,254 54 1.66%
2021 3,533 50 1.42%
2022 2,844 36 1.27%
2023 2,356 0 0.00%
2024 2,192 0 0.00%
2025 398 6 1.51%

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