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Archive now
Before a redesign or a migration, save a copy of the current pages on Internet Archive. If something gets lost along the way, at least a capture of how it looked exists.
The URLs are sent to Internet Archive and the capture becomes public there. Up to 20 per batch, three seconds apart: Save Page Now limits per minute.
How to use it
01
Type the domain
No path, no scheme. If you only want what used to work, tick “only the ones that returned 200” before looking it up.
02
Filter and group
Keep the HTML pages, narrow by folder and search by text. The folder grouping tells you where the bulk of the site lived.
03
Download and cross-check
The CSV to review calmly; the redirect skeleton to fill in the destination of every route before migrating.
Why is the old URL list the first step of a migration?
Every URL that had traffic or links and is missing from the redirect map becomes a 404 on switch day. Google takes months to stop visiting it, and meanwhile it passes less signal to the new site. The problem is not technical: it is that nobody has the complete list.
Search Console only shows what Google has crawled recently. The old CMS does not remember what it deleted three years ago. Internet Archive, on the other hand, kept what it saw when it saw it, which makes it the most complete source left.
How to use the list
- 01Filter by HTML pages and download the redirect skeleton: one line per old route, destination left blank.
- 02Cross-check each route with the new site’s sitemap. Whatever has an equivalent goes to a 301; whatever does not, to a 410, never to the home page.
- 03After publishing, check the routes with the redirect checker: a single hop, no chains, no loops.
Migrating without losing rankings is, above all, not losing URLs
On every migration we do, the redirect map is built before the design and verified on every build: zero chains, zero duplicate origins, zero missing destinations. This tool is the first link in that chain.
Frequently asked questions
Are all the URLs my site ever had in there?
Not necessarily. Internet Archive keeps what its crawlers found, what someone asked it to save and what arrived through agreements with other archives. A small, poorly linked site can have gaps of years. Even so, it is usually the most complete list that exists once the old CMS is gone: Search Console only shows what Google has seen recently, and the old server, if still on, does not remember what it deleted.
Why do URLs with odd parameters show up?
Because they existed. Pagination, session identifiers, campaigns, shop filters: everything that was once a link. The API already collapses identical variants, but it cannot know which ones matter. The “HTML only” filter and the path prefix remove most of the noise; the redirect skeleton drops the parameters for you, because a redirect map works with paths.
What does the status of each URL mean?
It is the HTTP code the server returned when Internet Archive last captured it. A 200 was a live page; a 301 or 302 was already redirecting; a 404 was broken at capture time. If you only care about what worked, tick the box before looking it up and the API filters at the source.
Can I archive a private or staging page?
No, and that is for the best. Save Page Now visits the URL from Internet Archive’s servers, like any anonymous visitor: if it asks for a password or sits on an internal network, there is nothing to save. And whatever it does save stays public forever. Archive only what is already public and you want to remain available.
How long until the capture appears?
Internet Archive accepts the request immediately and processes it in a queue: anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes depending on load. “Accepted” means it joined the queue, not that it is visible yet. After a while the capture shows up at web.archive.org/web/*/your-url.
Does Internet Archive save my site without permission?
Yes, as any search engine does. If you do not want it archived you can request removal through its contact form. Blocking it via robots.txt no longer works: since 2017 Internet Archive ignores that directive for sites it considers of public interest.
Is the domain I type stored?
The lookup goes from our function to web.archive.org, which holds the data; we do not log the domain, and the result is cached for a day so the same request is not repeated. When archiving, the URLs are sent to Internet Archive and become public there: that is what you are asking for.
Background reading
Explained on the blog
How to recover a site’s old URLs before migrating it
Why the URL inventory is the step that saves the most traffic in a migration, which sources to build it from (Search Console, server logs, the Wayback Machine), and how to turn it into a redirect map.
Migrating off WordPress without losing your SEO
The full process we follow on every migration - what to measure before touching anything, how to build the redirect matrix, and what to watch through the thirty days after launch.
Migrating or redesigning?
The list is the beginning. Building the map, verifying it on every deploy and watching Search Console for the following weeks is what keeps a migration invisible in the traffic.
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