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title: "Internal Links After Migration: 19.0% Lose Half - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/internal-links-after-migration
description: "The median top 1M homepage has 3.1% fewer internal links after a platform switch, and 19.0% of 4,536 lose more than half."
lang: en
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Internal Links After Migration: 19.0% Lose Half (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/internal-links-after-migration)

The median top 1M homepage has 3.1% fewer internal links after a platform switch, and 19.0% of 4,536 lose more than half.

Lost more than half of homepage internal links, by previous platform

WordPress 27%

WooCommerce 24.6%

Drupal 22.7%

Salesforce Commerce Cloud 19.8%

Webflow 17.6%

PrestaShop 15.9%

Magento 14.6%

Shopify 13.9%

Joomla 13.6%

Nuxt 13.5%

Gatsby 11.9%

BigCommerce 7.1%

Next.js 5.4%

Source: PageSpeed Matters. HTTP Archive top 1M monthly crawls, Sept 2024 to Sept 2026.

Homepage links only, one month before vs one month after the switch.

Source: Internal Links After Migration: 19.0% Lose Half - PageSpeed Matters (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/internal-links-after-migration)