Global 'Ghost Town' Index of Dead Shopping Mall URLs
Tracks how many once-busy shopping mall websites now return 404s or placeholder pages.
- Observations
- 16
- Tracking since
- Last updated
Global percentage of dead shopping mall websites
Percentage of shopping mall websites that return 404, 410 or placeholder pages
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Darker = higher global percentage of dead shopping mall websites. Empty cells are hours with no collection.
| When | Global percentage of dead shopping mall websites |
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| 7.7% | |
| 7.7% | |
| 7.7% | |
| 7.7% |
Median years since last update
Median time in years since the last update of active shopping mall websites
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Darker = higher median years since last update. Empty cells are hours with no collection.
| When | Median years since last update |
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Countries with over 30% dead mall URLs
Countries where more than 30% of shopping mall websites are dead
About this data
This index measures the decline of physical retail spaces in the digital realm by tracking how many shopping mall websites from a curated global list now return 404 errors or placeholder pages. The data reveals the accelerating obsolescence of traditional shopping centres as consumer habits shift online. It also highlights regional disparities, with some countries seeing over 30% of their mall URLs become inactive.
Sources
Every figure on this page was read from these pages.
Why this isn't published anywhere else
While there are existing resources tracking dead malls (e.g., Dead Mall Explorer, Mall Tracker), none appear to provide a live index specifically measuring the status of shopping mall URLs (e.g., 404s or placeholder pages) as a quantifiable metric.
Uniqueness score 0.90 — assessed against live web search results when this subject was created.