Quantification and Modeling of Broken Links Prevalence in Hyper Traffic Websites Homepages

arXiv:2402.18301v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Broken links in websites external resources pose a serious threat to cybersecurity and the credibility of websites. They can be hijacked to eavesdrop user traffic or to inject malicious software. In this paper, we present the first result of an ongoing research. We focus on the prevalence of broken links in external resources on home pages of the most visited websites in the world. The analysis was conducted on the top 88 000 homepages extracted …

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