My link checker said six of our citations were dead. All six were my HTTP client.
Our content pages cite their sources. A page that tells a candidate how long a test is has a link to the vendor page that says so, and when the vendor deletes that page we are left asserting a number with nothing behind it. So link rot is not a tidiness problem here, it is an accuracy problem. I pulled every external <a href> out of all 530 live pages: 324 distinct URLs across 140 hosts, carried…
The content pages that cite their sources have a link to vendor pages. When the vendor deletes that page, the company is left with asserting a number with nothing behind it. This is not a tidiness problem, but an accuracy problem. The report examined every external link on 530 live pages, with 324 distinct URLs across 140 hosts, carried by 121 of the 530 pages.
Six of these links are dead, but this finding is wrong. The report was run three times using different methods, and the first two passes only measured the author's own tooling. The only real content defect found was a typo in a test partnership demo link.
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