“Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today, compared with 8% of pages that existed in 2023.”
A quarter of the pages that existed at some point between 2013 and 2023 are gone. 21 percent of government pages hold at least one broken link. 54 percent of Wikipedia pages cite at least one source that no longer exists. The web was sold as the permanent record. It has the shelf life of a newspaper.