Wikipedia External Link Rot
Interesting to track link decay over time, nobody publishes this specific metric
- Observations
- 4
- Tracking since
- Last updated
Percentage of dead external links
Share of sampled external links from Wikipedia that return HTTP 4xx/5xx or fail to respond
25.0%
Percentage of dead external links
▬ 0.0% vs previous
09 Sep 2026 01:45
| When | Percentage of dead external links |
|---|---|
| 25.0% | |
| 25.0% |
Median response time of external links
Median time taken to receive a response (success or failure) from sampled external links, converted to hours
0 hours
Median response time of external links
▼ 16.8% vs previous
09 Sep 2026 01:45
| When | Median response time of external links |
|---|---|
| 0 hours | |
| 0 hours |
Sources
Every figure on this page was read from these pages.
Why this isn't published anywhere else
No live dashboard, recurring report, or public dataset specifically tracking Wikipedia external link rot was found; only general informational pages and a one‑off Pew Research analysis exist.
Uniqueness score 0.90 — assessed against live web search results when this subject was created.