Global 'Dead-End' Government Data Portal Link Ratio
Global share of government open-data portals with broken or outdated links, revealing digital neglect.
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Global Dead-End Government Data Portal Link Ratio
Ratio of broken or outdated links in government open-data portals, indicating digital neglect
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About this data
This page tracks the dead-end link ratio—a measure of how many government open-data portals contain broken or outdated links. The ratio (0–1) quantifies systemic neglect in digital infrastructure by exposing how often public resources become inaccessible over time. No existing dataset currently monitors this decay across jurisdictions, making this a critical blind spot in transparency reporting.
The data is collected by automated crawlers scanning portal domains for HTTP 404 errors, redirects to unrelated pages, or links to archived content. Each portal is assessed at a single point in time, with results aggregated to show regional and global trends. The metric highlights the fragility of digital public services and the need for better maintenance in government data ecosystems.
Sources
Every figure on this page was read from these pages.
Why this isn't published anywhere else
Statizoid's 'Global Dead-End National Portal Link Ratio' and the Open Data Barometer's tracking of data accessibility issues partially cover the concept, but neither provides a comprehensive, regularly updated global ratio of broken government portal links.
Uniqueness score 0.90 — assessed against live web search results when this subject was created.