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Digitised records

Over 80 million of our historical documents have been digitised and published online.

2,304,824 free copies of documents were downloaded from our DocumentsOnline service in 2010-11.

UK Government Web Archive

The National Archives is preserving digital government information by regularly archiving UK central government websites. There are now over 1 billion online documents accessible through our UK Government Web Archive. 

We have collected snapshots of more than 2,000 sites, and our UK Government Web Archive regularly receives up to 100 million hits each month.

Since we started recording web traffic to the UK Government Web Archive, there have been over 1 billion redirected hits to the website. See a monthly breakdown of redirected hits in 2010-11 compared with redirected hits so far in 2011-12 by viewing the graph below.

Content provided in this section is additional to that required by the Government's transparency commitments.

Redirected hits from the UK Government Web Archive (XLS, 0.00Mb)

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