The Global 'Dead-End' National Portal Link Ratio
Tracking the prevalence of broken internal links across official national government web portals.
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National Portal Link Decay Ratio
Percentage of sampled internal links resulting in 404 errors
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About this data
This index measures the 'digital decay' of state bureaucracy by calculating the ratio of broken internal links on primary national government portals. We track how often a central government hub links to an agency page that has been deleted or moved without a proper redirect.
Data is gathered through automated crawls of official .gov domains, identifying HTTP 404 errors and dead-end paths. We compare these figures against the global average decay rate to establish a benchmark for digital maintenance.
High decay rates often indicate a lack of coordination between central government administrations and their subordinate agencies, resulting in a fragmented user experience and inaccessible public services.
Sources
Every figure on this page was read from these pages.
Why this isn't published anywhere else
The search results contain general data portals (World Bank, ITU) and a general article on link rot (Pew), but none specifically track or publish a systematic 'dead-end link ratio' for national government portals.
Uniqueness score 1.00 — assessed against live web search results when this subject was created.