Attention: This blog post may raise concerns for many of you. Running a blog requires a significant investment of time. After several months, I’ve chosen to revitalize the website and reassess my content. An intriguing discovery I made relates to inactive URLs. Dead URLs can arise from various causes, adversely affecting user experience and website performance, and eventually, impacting rankings. Over time, I observed that some individuals neglect to update their websites. Some sites undergo domain changes without implementing proper redirection rules. Meanwhile, others opt to erase content to rewrite history—a choice I respect—and some are simply too occupied to address past issues.
Hence, that article might be a concern to many.
So I decided to make all broken URLs public and what I am doing to fix them. If in the future anyone wants me to re-fix or amend an amended link/URL that is of concern to you, please send me an email at [email protected]. I tried to resolve whatever I could to the best knowledge.
I used a free online tool at brokenlinkcheck.com. The total number of Broken links found is 35:
Resolution:
| Number | Broken URLS | Issue | Remedy |
| 1 | http://www.businessmag.mu/article/jochen-kirstatter-lallemand-qui-federe-les-informaticiens-autour-du-smart-island | looks like redirection on old URLs are not working to business-magazine.mu | Change url to business-magazine |
| 2 | https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/nodejs-docker-webapp/ | ENOENT: no such file or directory. got new url | https://nodejs.org/en/download/ |
| 3 | http://photo%20credits:%20postfix.org/ | my mistake | https://www.postfix.org/ |
| 4 | https://internetsummitafrica.org/ | no redirection and domain looks invalid | https://www.internetsummit.africa/ |
| 5 | https://www.cliniquedarne.com/en | no redirection when using /en – new domain | https://c-care.com/ |
| 6 | https://my-anasa.com/dummies-guide-travel/ | website down repointed to its twitter account | https://twitter.com/AnasaLuxury |
| 7 | https://trac.ietf.org/trac/ietf/meeting/wiki/104hackathon | page not found – re pointed to different link | https://www.ietf.org/how/runningcode/hackathons/104-hackathon/ |
| 8 | https://securenetweb.wordpress.com/2019/03/23/ietf-104-hackathon-tls-1-3/ | Author stop the blog and move to a different one | https://linuxdefense.wordpress.com/2019/03/23/ietf-104-hackathon-tls-1-3/ |
| 9 | https://www.telecom.mu/ | company name re-branded and link not available outside of mauritius | removed.. seem available to Mauritius only |
| 10 | https://github.com/jmutkawoa | my github name changed | https://github.com/jaykishanmutkawoa/ |
| 11 | https://securenetweb.wordpress.com/ | Author stop the blog and move to a different one | https://linuxdefense.wordpress.com |
| 12 | https://blog.maskys.com/ | kifah blog url changed to different location | https://maskys.com/#Writing |
| 13 | https://www.jbb.de/en/attorneys/dr-till-jaeger | profile not present on the current website | https://www.linkedin.com/in/till-jaeger-82a7128b/ |
| 14 | https://trac.ietf.org/trac/ietf/meeting/wiki/102hackathon | move to different url | https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/102/materials/slides-102-hackathon-sessa-hackathon-kickoff-presentation-00 |
| 15 | https://levypoorunofficial.blogspot.com/ | changed to different URL | https://avishaipoorun.blogspot.com/ |
| 16 | https://securenetweb.wordpress.com/author/rahulgolam/ | author profile changed to its linkedin profile | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-golam-452a61174/ |
| 17 | http://www.volatilityfoundation.org/ | not using www anymore and no redirection | updated to same URL without www |
| 18 | https://trac.ietf.org/trac/ietf/meeting/wiki/101hackathon | move to different url | https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/proceedings |
| 19 | http://thegodof.net/wp/ | move to different url | https://thegodof.net/ |
| 20 | http://www.govmu.org/English/News/Pages/Open-Data-portal-to-ease-citizens-undertake-data-driven-initiatives.aspx | move to different URL | https://govmu.org/EN/newsgov/SitePages/2017/Open-Data-portal-to-ease-citizens-undertake-data-driven-initiatives.aspx |
| 21 | http://phpmauritius.com/ | since domain is dead ,redirecting to their twitter | https://twitter.com/phpmauritiusug |
| 22 | http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/22/get-ready-for-an-africa-boom | cnn blogs retired per official website | removed hyperlink |
| 23 | http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/discoveries/ | subdomain retired | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/kepler/ |
| 24 | http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/team/coi/natalieBatalha/ | reached out to natalie .. as the project kepler was dead for some time | added natalie Wikipedia link – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Batalha |
| 25 | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.icsi.netalyzr.android | app is retired — but keeping the reference from berkeley | https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/blog/netalyzr-releases-android-app |
| 26 | http://people.redhat.com/anderson/ | subdomain retired | removing |
| 27 | https://nodequery.com/ | site down and coming up and down again — new reference | https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/158521/nodequery-no-longer-working-website-inaccessible |
| 28 | https://www.htbridge.com/ssl/ | move to different url | https://www.immuniweb.com/ssl/ |
| 29 | https://www.htbridge.com/websec/ | move to different url | https://www.immuniweb.com/websec/ |
| 30 | http://www.quadran.fr/index.php/en/ | move to different url | https://www.qair.energy/ |
| 31 | http://www.bcsmru.bcs.org/ | remove the www – new url | https://bcsmru.bcs.org/ |
| 32 | https://askyourcode.blogspot.com/ | blog down – redirect to github URL | https://github.com/kouul |
| 33 | http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks.html | move to different url | https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/ |
| 34 | http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_patterns.html | move to different url | https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/inventory_guide/intro_patterns.html |
| 35 | http://www.skysql.com/downloads/mariadb-audit-plugin-beta | url dead — redirect to home page | https://skysql.com/ |
