: Re: How to document and cite website downtime properly? I couldn't find anything on this one, so maybe someone has a good idea on what would be considered good practice in a scholarly context.

@Caterina108

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Did you take screenshots of it being down? Does the site have an errors log? Is there a site you checked those days to make sure it wasn't just you? (https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ and downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ are a few).

If the site is consistently archived on Archive.org's Wayback Machine, if you can show that on days surrounding it, there is an image of the site, but on the down-day, it shows just a (whatever) error, then that's another piece of evidence.

Whatever you use, then just cite it like any other website. If you did screenshots as evidence, then I would include those as an appendix.

(source - I used to teach Technical Writing at a local university)

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