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How does the web archive work?
The web archive uses a search robot that visits sites, copies materials to the organization's server and organizes them by date. The fact that the web archive saves the html code of all page interface elements allows you to recreate the site in its original form at the time the robot was on this page.
The most visited websites in the world can archive more than 200 thousand versions over the entire period of the site's existence. For example:
wikipedia web archive
History of Web Archive
The project's goal was to solve the problem of content disappearing from websites every time they were changed or closed. The creators planned to provide "common access to all knowledge" (in the form of digital data).
The web archive was launched in 1996. Over the 25 years of its existence, more than :
525 billion internet pages;
28 million books;
14 million audio recordings;
6 million videos.
Millions of people visit the site every day and it is one of the top 150 most popular sites in the world.
Practical use of the web archive
Search for old information. If you cannot find the information you are looking for in the search, then perhaps the requested site has expired hosting, domain, or the server is unavailable. An archive containing this information will come to the rescue.
To restore your site. If the site has stopped working for some reason, you can try to unarchive it.
Search for unique content.
Remote content can become a source of texts with 100% uniqueness. You can use it on your site to save on copywriter services.
Website analysis tool.
If your site has experienced a drop in traffic, you can view saved versions of the site before and after the crash. This will help you figure out the cause and fix it.
Conduct an analysis of the robots.txt file (versions of which are also stored in the archive). An incorrectly structured robots.txt file can negatively affect your positions in search results.
Analyze the domain before buying. You can view the previous content and theme of the domain , and also track whether it has changed over time. This can save you from buying a domain with a bad reputation.
A valuable resource for contemporaries.
Web designers, developers, marketers and other researchers of the digital world can learn how the World Wide Web has improved. How the design, buttons, and content of large and trusted sites have changed.
How to view the archive of the desired site
Go to web.archive.org and enter the domain you are interested panama phone number library in into the search. The platform creators also suggest using a search by relevant keywords if you do not know the exact domain name.
web archive search
Information about the domain has appeared: how many times it was saved and when information about it first appeared in the web archive.
data in web archive
Look
Afterwards, a timeline by year and a calendar with saved versions of the site for each day and month of the site's existence will open.
time in web archive
Look
In this calendar we see notes of different colors according to the dates they were saved:
blue - positive server response ( 2xx);
green - redirect (3xx) ;
orange - client error (4xx);
red - server error (5xx).
Click on one of the circles to see the site version on a specific day. If the site was saved several times on that day, a pop-up window appears with a list of all the snapshots for that day with the exact time. Click on any time.
popup window in archive
What we have here is a restored version of the site as of January 2015. The URL of the page contains numbers called timestamps , i.e. the year, month, day, hour, minute, second when this URL was saved.
archive timestamp
Look
All links on this page are working. You can follow them and see the pages they lead to. However, some elements and images may be missing.
Collections tool
This tool will show you why a specific URL is being archived . Collections are different groups of crawls that have different goals or target groups of domains, such as top domains, broken links, or regional sites.
All you have to do is click on a collection and you will be shown additional information about it.
