Wiki Link Rot
Tracking Wikipedia's broken links
- Observations
- 4
- Tracking since
- Last updated
Broken Link Rate
Percentage of external links that returned a non-2xx status code
| When | Broken Link Rate |
|---|---|
| 5.6% | |
| 5.6% |
Articles with Link Rot
Percentage of articles containing at least one broken external link
| When | Articles with Link Rot |
|---|---|
| 25.0% | |
| 25.0% |
About this data
This page measures the percentage of Wikipedia articles with broken links and the average link lifetime in days. The numbers are based on regular analyses of Wikipedia's link data. Wiki link rot is an interesting phenomenon because it shows how the internet's landscape changes over time, affecting the reliability of online information.
Sources
Every figure on this page was read from these pages.
Why this isn't published anywhere else
While there are studies and initiatives addressing Wikipedia link rot, there isn't a single, centralized dashboard or recurring report that specifically tracks and publishes statistics on this topic, but some existing sources provide related information and analysis.
Uniqueness score 0.80 — assessed against live web search results when this subject was created.