An examination of link rot within the New York Times website

Link rot refers to the modern nuisance when links to a resource or webpage no longer work or become unreachable. Links in older articles are more likely to be broken.

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All websites are affected by link rot, and this analysis focused on the NYT website.

The dataset consisted of 553,693 articles, representing 1,627,612 unique links.

72% of the links were deep links that included a path to a specific page and those were the ones examined.

Source: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37367405