What is ArchiveReady?

An online tool which evaluates if a website will be archived correctly by web archives, such as the Internet Archive.

Who is it for?

Web professionals who need to check if their websites are archive ready.
Web archive engineers who need to evaluate target websites before harvesting and ingestion.
Students who need to learn more about digital archiving.

How much does it cost?

ArchiveReady.com is completely FREE for personal use. Large scale use of the ArchiveReady.com API as well as technical and scientific support is available on a fee. Please contact the author to learn more.

Large scale users

Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Bibliothek Netzliteratur

Why bother?

Because not all websites are archive ready and this may result in invalid web archives and ultimately in information loss.

How does it work?

ArchiveReady analyses your website (i.e. HTML, Images, CSS, JS, Sitemaps) and performs complex evaluations in order to calculate Website Archivability from a set of Archivability Facets: Accessibility, Cohesion, Metadata & Standards Compliance.

Do you need more information?

Banos V., Manolopoulos Y., Web Content Management Systems Archivability, ADBIS 2015.

Banos V., Manolopoulos Y.: A quantitative approach to evaluate Website Archivability using the CLEAR+ method, International Journal on Digital Libraries (Springer), 12 March 2015. Springer Link · BIB

Banos V., Kim Y., Ross S., Manolopoulos Y.: CLEAR: a credible method to evaluate website archivability, 10th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES’2013), Lisbon, 2013. PDF · BIB

Service started in 2012/10/01, websites checked: 80215, software version: 3.0.