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The Global 'Dead-End' National Portal Link Ratio
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.