The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine Link Fixer, a plug-in available for websites hosted on WordPress, automatically combats link rot by redirecting users to a working archived version of a page when it encounters a dead link.
If you’ve spent enough time on the internet, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of clicking broken links to websites long since taken down, and the problem is only likely to get worse as the internet continues to age. Almost four in ten webpages—38%—that existed in 2013 were no longer accessible a decade later, according to the Pew Research Center.
Now, the Internet Archive is rolling out a more intuitive way for website owners to combat the problem, in collaboration with website hosting service WordPress, which is used by around 40% of websites.
