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		thaumaturgy on April 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed The Wayback Machine accounts for about half of archive.org's pageviews. You think most other people mainly care about the thing you mainly care about. Happens all the time.

ImPostingOnHN on April 7, 2023 [–]

it looks like the wayback machine accounts for more than half of archive.org's page views [1], making that poster's hypothesis correct

[1] https://analytics1.archive.org/stats/pageviews.php

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