Annual Report 2023

Transparency in preserving digital history. Fiscal Year Oct 2022 – Sep 2023.

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Total Pages Archived

14.2M

▲ 22% vs last year

Storage Capacity

840 PB

▲ 18% expansion

Active Restorations

3.8K

▼ 5% efficiency gain

Global API Requests

1.2B

▲ 34% growth

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Archival Growth & Composition

Pages indexed per decade recovered

2.1M

1990-94

4.5M

1995-99

3.2M

2000-04

6.1M

2005-09

1.8M

2010+

Technologies Preserved

HTML (Frames/Tables) 42%

Animated GIF 28%

MIDI/Audio 15%

Flash/SWF 10%

Java Applets 5%

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Operational Summary

Metric	Value	YoY Change	Status
Server Uptime	99.98%	+0.02%	Optimal
Avg Crawl Latency	124 ms	-18 ms	Optimal
Storage Cost / TB	$0.012	-$0.003	Reduced
Decay Rate (Bit Rot)	0.004%	-0.001%	Mitigated
Research Grants	$2.4M	+$0.8M	Funded
Active Crawlers	4,820	+820	Scaling

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Key Achievements

March 2023
GeoCities Restoration Milestone

                    Successfully recovered and rendered 50,000 unique GeoCities homepages that were offline since 2009. Implemented new table-layout engine.
                

June 2023
API v2 Launch

                    Released the second generation of our public API, allowing researchers to filter by CSS properties, JavaScript libraries, and color palettes.
                

August 2023
Flash Emulation Suite

                    Deployed Ruffle-based emulation layer for 180,000 archived SWF files, making interactive 90s experiences accessible in modern browsers.
                