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Link rot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ /**/ if (wgNotice != '') document.writeln(wgNotice); Link rot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search  This article or section includes a list of references or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations.You can improve this article by introducing more precise citations where appropriate.Link rot (or linkrot) is the process by which links on a website gradually become irrelevant or broken as time goes on, because websites that they link to disappear, change their content or redirect to new locations.The phrase also describes the effects of failing to update web pages so that they become out-of-date, containing information that is old and useless, and that clutters up search engine results.Contents1 Prevalence2 Discovering3 Combating3.1 Web archiving3.2 Webmasters3.3 Authors citing URLs4 See also5 References6 Further reading6.1 Link rot on the Web6.2 In academic literature6.3 In digital libraries7 External links//[edit] PrevalenceThe 404 "not found" response is familiar to even the occasional Web user. A number of studies have examined the prevalence of link rot on the Web, in academic literature, and in digital libraries. In a 2003 experiment, Fetterly et al. (2003) discovered that about one link out of every 200 disappeared each week from the internet. McCown et al. (2005) discovered that half of the URLs cited in D-Lib Magazine articles were no longer accessible 10 years after publication, and other studies have shown link rot in academic literature to be even worse (Spinellis, 2003, Lawrence et al., 2001). Nelson and Allen (2002) examined link rot in digital libraries found that about 3% of the objects were no longer accessible after one year.Some news sites contribute to the link rot problem by keeping only recent news articles online where they are freely accessible at their original URLs, then removing them or moving them to a paid subscription area. This causes a heavy loss of supporting links in sites discussing newsworthy events and using news sites as references.[edit] DiscoveringDetecting link rot for a given URL is difficult using automated methods. If a URL is accessed and returns back an HTTP 200 (OK) response, it may be considered accessible, but the contents of the page may have changed and may no longer be relevant. Some web servers also return a soft 404, a page returned with a 200 (OK) response (instead of a 404) that indicates the URL is no longer accessible. Bar-Yossef et al. (2004) developed a heuristic for automatically discovering soft 404s.[edit] CombatingThere are several tools that have been developed to help combat link rot.The WordPress blog publishing systems implements a guard against link rot by replacing non-canonical URLs with their canonical versions.[1]The Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer creates a special web page when receiving a 404 response which is designed to assist the user in finding the missing web page.[2] ErrorZilla provides a similar service for the Firefox web browser.[pagefactor.com] is a website via which users can submit new locations for missing URLs.Researchers at IBM have developed a system called Peridot that attempts to automatically fix broken links. It is not currently accessible to the public.[edit] Web archivingTo combat link rot, web archivists are actively engaged in collecting the Web or particular portions of the Web and ensuring the collection is preserved in an archive, such as an archive site, for future researchers, historians, and the public. The largest web archiving organization is the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which strives to maintain an archive of the entire Web, taking periodic snapshots of pages that can then be accessed for free and without registration many years later simply by typing in the URL. National libraries, national archives and various consortia of organizations are also involved in archiving culturally important Web content.Individuals may also use a number of tools that allow them to archive web resources that may go missing in the future:WebCite, a tool specifically for scholarly authors, journal editors and publishers to permanently archive "on-demand" and retrieve cited Internet references (Eysenbach and Trudel, 2005).Archive-It, a subscription service that allows institutions to build, manage and search their own web archiveSome social bookmarking websites, such as Furl, make private copies of web pages bookmarked by their users.[edit] WebmastersWebmasters have developed a number of best practices for combating link rot:Avoiding unmanaged hyperlink collectionsAvoiding links to pages deep in a website ("deep linking")Using hyperlink checking software or a Content Management System (CMS) that automatically checks linksUsing permalinksUsing redirection mechanisms (e.g. "301: Moved Permanently") to automatically refer browsers and crawlers to the new location of a URL[edit] Authors citing URLsA number of studies have shown how wide-spread link rot is in academic literature (see below). Authors of scholarly publications have also developed best-practices for combating link rot in their work:Avoiding URL citations that point to resources on a researcher's personal home page (McCown et al., 2005)Using Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs) and digital object identifiers (DOIs) whenever possibleUsing web archiving services (e.g. WebCite) to permanently archive and retrieve cited Internet references (Eysenbach and Trudel, 2005).[edit] See alsoDead linkDigital preservationUniform Resource LocatorWeb archivingWebCite[edit] References^ Rønn-Jensen, Jesper (2007-10-05). "Software Eliminates User Errors And Linkrot". Justaddwater.dk. Retrieved on 2007-10-05.^ Mueller, John (2007-12-14). "FYI on Google Toolbar's Latest Features". Google Webmaster Central Blog. Retrieved on 2008-07-09.[edit] Further reading[edit] Link rot on the WebZiv Bar-Yossef, Andrei Z. Broder, Ravi Kumar, and Andrew Tomkins (2004). "Sic transit gloria telae: towards an understanding of the Web’s decay". Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web: 328–337. Tim Berners-Lee (1998). Cool URIs Don’t Change, http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html. Gunther Eysenbach and Mathieu Trudel (2005). "Going, going, still there: using the WebCite service to permanently archive cited web pages". Journal of Medical Internet Research 7 (5). doi:10.2196/jmir.7.5.e60. Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, Marc Najork, and Janet Wiener (2003). "A large-scale study of the evolution of web pages". Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web. Wallace Koehler (2004). "A longitudinal study of web pages continued: A consideration of document persistence". Information Research 9 (2), http://informationr.net/ir/9-2/paper174.html. John Markwell and David W. Brooks (2002). "Broken Links: The Ephemeral Nature of Educational WWW Hyperlinks". Journal of Science Education and Technology 11 (2): 105–108. doi:10.1023/A:1014627511641. [edit] In academic literatureRobert P. Dellavalle, Eric J. Hester, Lauren F. Heilig, Amanda L. Drake, Jeff W. Kuntzman, Marla Graber, Lisa M. Schilling (2003). "Going, Going, Gone: Lost Internet References". Science 302 (5646): 787–788. doi:10.1126/science.1088234. PMID 14593153. Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock, Gary William Flake, Robert Krovetz, Frans M. Coetzee, Eric Glover, Finn Arup Nielsen, Andries Kruger, C. Lee Giles (2001). "Persistence of Web References in Scientific Research". Computer 34 (2): 26–31. doi:10.1109/2.901164, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/2.901164. Wallace Koehler (1999). "An Analysis of Web Page and Web Site Constancy and Permanence". Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 (2): 162–180. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:2<162::AID-ASI7>3.0.CO;2-B. Frank McCown, Sheffan Chan, Michael L. Nelson, and Johan Bollen (2005). "The Availability and Persistence of Web References in D-Lib Magazine". Proceedings of the 5th International Web Archiving Workshop and Digital Preservation (IWAW'05). Carmine Sellitto (2005). "The impact of impermanent Web-located citations: A study of 123 scholarly conference publications". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 56 (7): 695–703. doi:10.1002/asi.20159, http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/asi.20159. Diomidis Spinellis (2003). "The Decay and Failures of Web References". Communications of the ACM 46 (1): 71–77. doi:10.1145/602421.602422, http://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/jrnl/2003-CACM-URLcite/html/urlcite.html. [edit] In digital librariesMichael L. Nelson and B. Danette Allen (2002). "Object Persistence and Availability in Digital Libraries". D-Lib Magazine 8 (1). doi:10.1045/january2002-nelson. [edit] External linksFuture-Proofing Your URIsJakob Nielsen, "Fighting Linkrot", Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, June 14, 1998.Warrick - a tool for recovering lost websites from the Internet Archive and search engine cachesPagefactor - user-contributed database of moved URLsRetrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot" Categories: World Wide WebHidden category: Articles lacking in-text citations Views Article Discussion Edit this page History Personal tools Log in / create account if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha(); Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Interaction About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact Wikipedia Donate to Wikipedia Help Toolbox What links here Related changesUpload fileSpecial pages Printable version Permanent linkCite this page Languages Nederlands Svenska   This page was last modified on 4 November 2008, at 19:35. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. 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