YakGuard research
We crawled 16487 business websites. 29% had broken links.
As part of building our broken-link monitor we crawl real small-business websites (up to 50 pages each, anonymized in aggregate). The numbers below update as the crawl grows.
Sites crawled
16487
Sites with broken links
29%
4761 of 16487
Dead links found
15875
across 469842 pages checked
What breaks (sampled)
Distribution across sampled findings (top findings per site), not a census.
| Status | Share of sampled findings |
|---|---|
| 404 | 10188 |
| 410 | 100 |
| 403 | 20 |
| timeout | 9 |
| 999 | 3 |
| 520 | 1 |
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