YakGuard research
We crawled 711 business websites. 14% 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
711
Sites with broken links
14%
103 of 711
Dead links found
427
across 26843 pages checked
What breaks (sampled)
Distribution across sampled findings (top findings per site), not a census.
| Status | Share of sampled findings |
|---|---|
| 404 | 188 |
| 403 | 20 |
| timeout | 9 |
| 999 | 3 |
| 410 | 1 |
| 520 | 1 |
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