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Answers to Recent Community Questions

Answers to Recent Community Questions

In this post we respond to the most common questions. Thanks for all the support and please keep the questions coming!
Common Crawl Enters A New Phase

Common Crawl Enters A New Phase

A little under four years ago, Gil Elbaz formed the Common Crawl Foundation. He was driven by a desire to ensure a truly open web. He knew that decreasing storage and bandwidth costs, along with the increasing ease of crunching big data, made building and maintaining an open repository of web crawl data feasible.
Video: Gil Elbaz at Web 2.0 Summit 2011

Video: Gil Elbaz at Web 2.0 Summit 2011

Hear Common Crawl founder discuss how data accessibility is crucial to increasing rates of innovation as well as give ideas on how to facilitate increased access to data.

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Oct/Nov 2023 Performance Issues

November 15, 2023

Our datasets have become very popular over time, with downloads doubling every 6 months for several years in a row. This post details some steps to take if you are impacted by performance issues.

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Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs Mar/May/Oct 2023

October 18, 2023

We are pleased to announce a new release of host-level and domain-level web graphs based on the crawls of March, May, and October 2023. The host-level graph consists of 378.7 million nodes and 2.6 billion edges, and the domain-level graph has 94.2 million nodes and 1.7 billion edges.

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September/October 2023 crawl archive now available

October 12, 2023

The crawl archive for September/October 2023 is now available! The data was crawled Sept 21 – October 5 and contains 3.4 billion web pages or 456 TiB of uncompressed content.

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Bridging Digital Exploration and Scientific Frontiers

October 10, 2023

This month Common Crawl Foundation members had the privilege of attending 5th International Open Search Symposium at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

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May/June 2023 crawl archive now available

June 21, 2023

The crawl archive for May/June 2023 is now available! The data was crawled May 27 – June 11 and contains 3.1 billion web pages or 390 TiB of uncompressed content. Page captures are from 44 million hosts or 35 million registered domains and include 1.0 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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March/April 2023 crawl archive now available

April 6, 2023

The crawl archive for March/April 2023 is now available! The data was crawled March 20 – April 2 and contains 3.1 billion web pages or 400 TiB of uncompressed content. Page captures are from 43 million hosts or 34 million registered domains and include 1.2 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs September/October, November/December 2022 and January/February 2023

March 15, 2023

We are pleased to announce a new release of host-level and domain-level web graphs based on the September/October, November/December 2022 and January/February 2023 crawls. For more information about the data formats and the processing pipeline, please see the announcements of previous webgraph releases.

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January/February 2023 crawl archive now available

February 16, 2023

The crawl archive for January/February 2023 is now available! The data was crawled January 26 – February 9 and contains 3.15 billion web pages or 400 TiB of uncompressed content. Page captures are from 40 million hosts or 33 million registered domains and include 1.3 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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November/December 2022 crawl archive now available

December 14, 2022

The crawl archive for November/December 2022 is now available! The data was crawled November 26 – December 10 and contains 3.35 billion web pages or 420 TiB of uncompressed content. Page captures are from 44 million hosts or 34 million registered domains and include 1.2 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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September/October 2022 crawl archive now available

October 11, 2022

The crawl archive for September/October 2022 is now available! The data was crawled September 24 – October 8 and contains 3.15 billion web pages or 380 TiB of uncompressed content. Page captures are from 44 million hosts or 34 million registered domains and include 1.3 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls. This crawl includes improvements made in extracting clean text in WET files and WAT anchor texts.

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Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs May, June/July and August 2022

September 23, 2022

We are pleased to announce a new release of host-level and domain-level web graphs based on the crawls of May, June/July and August 2022. Additional information about the data formats, the processing pipeline, our objectives, and credits can be found in the announcements of prior webgraph releases.

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August 2022 crawl archive now available

August 22, 2022

The crawl archive for August 2022 is now available! The data was crawled August 7 – 20 and contains 2.55 billion web pages or 295 TiB of uncompressed content. Page captures are from 46 million hosts or 37 million registered domains and include 1.3 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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June/July 2022 crawl archive now available

July 13, 2022

The crawl archive for June/July 2022 is now available! The data was crawled June 24 – July 7 and contains 3.1 billion web pages or 370 TiB of uncompressed content. Page captures are from 44 million hosts or 35 million registered domains and include 1.4 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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May 2022 crawl archive now available

June 2, 2022

The crawl archive for May 2022 is now available! The data was crawled May 16 – 29 and contains 3.45 billion web pages or 420 TiB of uncompressed content. Page captures are from 45 million hosts or 36 million registered domains and include 1.4 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs October, November/December 2021 and January 2022

March 16, 2022

We are pleased to announce a new release of host-level and domain-level web graphs based on the crawls of October, November/December 2021 and January 2022. Additional information about the data formats, the processing pipeline, our objectives, and credits can be found in the announcements of prior webgraph releases.

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Introducing CloudFront as a new way to access Common Crawl data as part of Amazon Web Services’ registry of open data

March 1, 2022

Ten years ago(!) Common Crawl joined AWS’s Open Data Sponsorships program, hosted on S3, with free access to everyone. Since then, the dataset has expanded (by petabytes!) and our community of users has seen extraordinary growth.

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January 2022 crawl archive now available

February 2, 2022

The crawl archive for January 2022 is now available! The data was crawled January 16 – 29 and contains 2.95 billion web pages or 320 TiB of uncompressed content. It includes page captures of 1.35 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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November/December 2021 crawl archive now available

December 14, 2021

The crawl archive for November/December 2021 is now available! The data was crawled Nov 26 – Dec 9 and contains 2.5 billion web pages or 280 TiB of uncompressed content. It includes page captures of 1.2 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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October 2021 crawl archive now available

November 1, 2021

The crawl archive for October 2021 is now available! The data was crawled Oct 15 – 28 and contains 3.3 billion web pages or 360 TiB of uncompressed content. It includes page captures of 1.3 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs June, July/August and September 2021

October 8, 2021

We are pleased to announce a new release of host-level and domain-level web graphs based on the crawls of June, July/August and September 2021. Additional information about the data formats, the processing pipeline, our objectives, and credits can be found in the announcements of prior webgraph releases.

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September 2021 crawl archive now available

October 4, 2021

The crawl archive for September 2021 is now available! The data was crawled Sept 16 – 29 and contains 2.95 billion web pages or 310 TiB of uncompressed content. It includes page captures of 1.3 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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July/August 2021 crawl archive now available

August 9, 2021

The crawl archive for July/August 2021 is now available! The data was crawled July 23 – August 6 and contains 3.15 billion web pages or 360 TiB of uncompressed content. It includes page captures of 1 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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June 2021 crawl archive now available

June 28, 2021

The crawl archive for June 2021 is now available! The data was crawled June 12 – 25 and contains 2.45 billion web pages or 260 TiB of uncompressed content. It includes page captures of 1.3 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs February/March, April and May 2021

May 31, 2021

We are pleased to announce a new release of host-level and domain-level web graphs based on the crawls of February/March, April and May 2021. Additional information about the data formats, the processing pipeline, our objectives, and credits can be found in the announcements of prior webgraph releases.

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May 2021 crawl archive now available

May 23, 2021

The crawl archive for May 2021 is now available! The data was crawled May 5 – 19 and contains 2.6 billion web pages or 280 TiB of uncompressed content. It includes page captures of 1.28 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

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