At Least 66.5% of Links to Sites in the Last 9 Years Are Dead (Ahrefs Study on Link Rot)
The web is constantly changing, and pages get removed or redirected. This makes links to these pages go to a broken page or possibly a page that’s not like the original. This phenomenon is called link rot. Since January 2013, 66.5% of the links pointing to the 2,062,173 websites we sampled have rotted. We found … Read more