𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐛 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐢𝐝𝐞—𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 "And then there's the lack of ongoing maintenance, which is a problem with the web, according to Pew Research. "A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023," they write. "In most cases, this is because an individual page was deleted or removed on an otherwise functional website. For older content, this trend is even starker. Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today, compared with 8% of pages that existed in 2023." "According to Pew, 23% of news webpages have at least one broken link. For government sites, it's 21%. No matter how popular the sites or pages, the statistics are about the same. For Wikipedia pages, more than half have at least one broken link in their references section. Social media is no better and may be worse. On X/Twitter, almost 20% of tweets disappear within months. "In 60% of these cases, the account that originally posted the tweet was made private, suspended or deleted entirely," Pew says. "In the other 40%, the account holder deleted the individual tweet, but the account itself still existed." https://lnkd.in/gNgBDSCz