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Here’s how bad link rot is.

Pew research found that more than a third of webpages from 2013 are now inaccessible. 23 percent of news webpages have at least one broken link, and 54 percent of Wikipedia articles have at least one reference link going to a page that doesn’t exist anymore.

Pew data showing that 38 percent of webpages from 2013 are no long accessible as of October 2023.
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