“link-rot” News Archive

Definition, related topics, and tag feed

Definition · Supertopics: links, quality · Subtopics: error-pages (non-exhaustive) · “link-rot” RSS feed (per email)

Entry (Sources) and Other Related Topics	Date	#
Cool URLs Don’t Change, Unless… (j9t)	Jan 23, 2025	16
urls, links, redirecting	Jan 23, 2025	16
How to Detect Broken Links With Playwright (ste)	Sep 6, 2024	15
how-tos, testing, playwright	Sep 6, 2024	15
A Little DevTools Snippet to Check Broken Links on a Webpage (ami)	May 26, 2024	14
browsers, dev-tools, javascript, testing	May 26, 2024	14
No More 404 (rem)	Sep 26, 2023	13
user-experience, quality, automation	Sep 26, 2023	13
How Websites Die	Feb 21, 2022	12
web	Feb 21, 2022	12
The Internet Is Rotting	Jun 30, 2021	11
web	Jun 30, 2021	11
Decaying Sites (chr/css)	Apr 4, 2019	10
maintenance, effects	Apr 4, 2019	10
The Most Annoying Yet Most Important Task in Website Management (j9t)	Oct 16, 2008	9
links, maintenance, user-experience, quality, web	Oct 16, 2008	9
W3C Markup Validator, Link Checker Updated	Oct 28, 2006	8
w3c, html, xhtml, conformance, links, user-experience, tooling	Oct 28, 2006	8
Ten Steps to a More User Friendly Website	Sep 14, 2005	7
flash, performance, images, compression, html, conformance, browsers, support, navigation, readability, quality	Sep 14, 2005	7
Cool URIs Don’t Change (tim/w3c)	Dec 12, 1998	6
urls, links, web	Dec 12, 1998	6
Fighting Linkrot (nng)	Jun 14, 1998	5
links, user-experience	Jun 14, 1998	5
Link and Image Checker		4
tools, analysis, images, links, user-experience		4
Link Checker (Dead Link Checker)		3
tools, analysis, links, user-experience		3
Link Checker (Dr. Link Check)		2
tools, analysis, links, user-experience		2
Link Checker (W3C) (w3c)		1
tools, analysis, links, user-experience		1