We requested every web address that 685,343 Turkish businesses publish. 271,566 of them did not answer, and 164,281 no longer resolve to anything at all. Free data by province and sector, CC BY 4.0.
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The largest single failure class is not a 404. It is 164,281 hostnames with no DNS record at all, which is 24.0% of every address tested and more than every HTTP error combined. These businesses are not running a broken site; the domain lapsed and nobody renewed it. A directory that lists them is quietly shipping dead links.
ATMs (95.8% reachable) and banks or credit unions (95.4%) sit at the top. Car dealers (33.5%), real-estate agents (34.8%) and real-estate firms (39.6%) sit at the bottom, despite selling high-value goods that buyers research online first. Whatever keeps a site alive, it is closer to having a compliance department than to needing customers to find you.
34,778 addresses answered with HTTP 403. Many of those sites are alive and simply refuse an unfamiliar client, so we report them as a separate failure class rather than folding them into the dead count. The dead figure that matters, and the one we lead with, is the DNS number, which has no such ambiguity.
Across the provinces with at least 1,000 tested addresses, the gap between the best and the worst is about 9 points; between the best and worst sector it is over 60. Tokat (54.8%), Elâzığ (55.2%) and Van (55.4%) trail the 60.4% national average, but a car dealer in Istanbul is far more likely to have a dead site than a bank in Van.
Every address was requested once. Failures are grouped by what an operator could act on rather than by raw error string.
| Failure | Addresses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hostname does not resolve | 164,281 | 24.0% |
| HTTP 4xx (missing page or bot block) | 58,025 | 8.5% |
| Timed out | 32,729 | 4.8% |
| HTTP 5xx (server error) | 7,924 | 1.2% |
| Connection refused or host unreachable | 3,236 | 0.5% |
| Redirected without resolving | 2,693 | 0.4% |
| Malformed address | 911 | 0.1% |
| Other | 1,767 | 0.3% |
Provinces with at least 1,000 tested addresses.
Provinces with at least 1,000 tested addresses.
Sectors with at least 500 scanned addresses, ranked by the share whose website answered.
| Sector | Tested | Answered | Domain gone |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATM | 5,993 | 95.8% | 0.2% |
| Bank or credit union | 7,537 | 95.4% | 0.7% |
| Bank | 4,467 | 84.2% | 1.0% |
| Phone store | 7,318 | 82.4% | 10.4% |
| Petrol station | 7,702 | 78.7% | 6.6% |
| Coffee shop | 7,589 | 73.8% | 16.3% |
| Manufacturing and supply | 7,492 | 73.4% | 15.3% |
| Primary school | 7,591 | 72.7% | 20.3% |
| Commercial and industrial | 5,004 | 71.0% | 17.8% |
| Fast food | 4,520 | 67.3% | 20.5% |
| Insurance agency | 4,592 | 67.0% | 19.8% |
| Dentist | 4,576 | 66.4% | 21.1% |
| Freight and cargo | 4,573 | 64.2% | 21.0% |
| Education | 5,116 | 63.9% | 25.0% |
| Travel agency | 8,793 | 62.0% | 24.3% |
| Doctor | 8,375 | 61.9% | 25.3% |
| Advertising agency | 11,400 | 61.4% | 28.0% |
| Professional services | 13,343 | 60.3% | 28.1% |
| Bakery | 4,248 | 59.6% | 27.4% |
| Construction services | 11,663 | 59.5% | 29.3% |
| Printing | 6,317 | 58.6% | 27.2% |
| Hotel | 22,437 | 58.6% | 28.1% |
| Auto parts | 4,589 | 58.4% | 21.3% |
| Event planning | 11,867 | 57.4% | 30.0% |
| Restaurant | 13,540 | 57.2% | 28.9% |
| Electronics | 9,349 | 55.8% | 21.2% |
| Furniture store | 18,950 | 55.7% | 28.9% |
| Women’s clothing | 4,587 | 55.6% | 22.3% |
| Shopping | 6,561 | 55.5% | 27.1% |
| Cafe | 9,718 | 54.7% | 32.5% |
| Auto repair | 6,604 | 54.1% | 27.5% |
| Turkish restaurant | 7,052 | 52.7% | 31.7% |
| Clothing store | 8,327 | 52.5% | 21.5% |
| Gym | 5,769 | 52.3% | 33.4% |
| Beauty and spa | 7,447 | 52.1% | 34.6% |
| Beauty salon | 4,721 | 51.7% | 37.0% |
| Florist and gifts | 4,185 | 50.8% | 32.5% |
| Real estate | 9,706 | 39.6% | 31.8% |
| Estate agent | 12,822 | 34.8% | 38.0% |
| Car dealer | 5,971 | 33.5% | 17.3% |
All 81 provinces with at least 200 scanned addresses, ranked by the share whose website answered.
| Province | Tested | Answered | Domain gone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gümüşhane | 472 | 65.9% | 19.1% |
| Ardahan | 266 | 65.8% | 18.0% |
| Nevşehir | 3,348 | 64.2% | 21.4% |
| Ağrı | 616 | 62.8% | 19.2% |
| Bingöl | 428 | 62.4% | 23.6% |
| Artvin | 816 | 62.4% | 22.2% |
| Konya | 19,903 | 62.3% | 23.1% |
| Bitlis | 561 | 62.2% | 21.9% |
| İstanbul | 218,459 | 62.1% | 22.4% |
| Bursa | 31,631 | 61.7% | 23.4% |
| Ankara | 57,934 | 61.6% | 23.7% |
| Burdur | 1,568 | 61.4% | 21.6% |
| Sivas | 2,445 | 61.3% | 23.5% |
| Kocaeli | 16,511 | 61.3% | 23.7% |
| Yozgat | 1,168 | 61.0% | 22.1% |
| Erzincan | 1,029 | 60.9% | 22.4% |
| Kayseri | 9,810 | 60.6% | 24.4% |
| Tunceli | 218 | 60.6% | 18.8% |
| Denizli | 9,654 | 60.4% | 22.7% |
| Şırnak | 654 | 60.4% | 21.9% |
| Eskişehir | 8,624 | 60.2% | 24.2% |
| Çankırı | 669 | 60.1% | 23.2% |
| Düzce | 2,849 | 60.1% | 25.7% |
| İzmir | 52,152 | 60.0% | 25.0% |
| Niğde | 1,446 | 60.0% | 22.2% |
| Trabzon | 5,656 | 59.9% | 25.1% |
| Kars | 732 | 59.8% | 23.0% |
| Bayburt | 301 | 59.5% | 23.9% |
| Antalya | 36,713 | 59.5% | 24.8% |
| Gaziantep | 10,293 | 59.4% | 25.2% |
| Isparta | 2,631 | 59.2% | 24.0% |
| Diyarbakır | 3,673 | 59.1% | 24.0% |
| Iğdır | 364 | 59.1% | 23.4% |
| Zonguldak | 2,427 | 59.0% | 23.1% |
| Çorum | 2,244 | 59.0% | 25.9% |
| Uşak | 2,202 | 58.9% | 24.6% |
| Tekirdağ | 8,876 | 58.6% | 25.1% |
| Ordu | 3,390 | 58.6% | 24.0% |
| Şanlıurfa | 3,944 | 58.6% | 25.6% |
| Sakarya | 9,093 | 58.5% | 25.6% |
| Kırşehir | 829 | 58.4% | 25.7% |
| Adana | 12,189 | 58.3% | 26.3% |
| Samsun | 8,699 | 58.3% | 25.2% |
| Kırklareli | 2,427 | 58.3% | 25.3% |
| Muş | 452 | 58.2% | 21.0% |
| Edirne | 3,266 | 58.2% | 26.6% |
| Muğla | 19,171 | 58.2% | 26.1% |
| Afyonkarahisar | 3,919 | 58.1% | 23.6% |
| Sinop | 1,047 | 58.1% | 26.7% |
| Kahramanmaraş | 3,621 | 58.0% | 25.4% |
| Mardin | 2,162 | 58.0% | 24.2% |
| Bartın | 1,105 | 57.9% | 27.3% |
| Rize | 2,518 | 57.9% | 27.5% |
| Bolu | 2,330 | 57.9% | 24.5% |
| Giresun | 2,179 | 57.8% | 24.8% |
| Bilecik | 1,135 | 57.7% | 25.3% |
| Karaman | 1,468 | 57.7% | 26.6% |
| Manisa | 7,398 | 57.5% | 24.9% |
| Amasya | 1,362 | 57.5% | 24.0% |
| Kütahya | 2,838 | 57.4% | 24.9% |
| Balıkesir | 10,475 | 57.3% | 26.7% |
| Erzurum | 2,461 | 57.3% | 26.5% |
| Yalova | 2,617 | 57.1% | 26.6% |
| Hatay | 6,055 | 57.0% | 26.0% |
| Batman | 1,446 | 56.9% | 26.3% |
| Aydın | 9,930 | 56.8% | 26.9% |
| Çanakkale | 5,676 | 56.7% | 26.3% |
| Siirt | 542 | 56.6% | 25.1% |
| Mersin | 11,662 | 56.6% | 26.6% |
| Malatya | 2,809 | 56.4% | 27.0% |
| Karabük | 1,509 | 56.3% | 26.1% |
| Kilis | 530 | 56.2% | 22.5% |
| Adıyaman | 1,295 | 56.1% | 25.1% |
| Aksaray | 1,919 | 56.1% | 24.6% |
| Kastamonu | 1,854 | 56.0% | 26.5% |
| Osmaniye | 1,621 | 55.9% | 24.6% |
| Van | 1,734 | 55.4% | 25.4% |
| Elâzığ | 2,173 | 55.2% | 27.0% |
| Kırıkkale | 917 | 55.1% | 22.1% |
| Tokat | 1,955 | 54.8% | 25.6% |
| Hakkâri | 278 | 50.4% | 31.7% |
Reachability was measured with a single request per address on 4 September 2026. A site that happened to be down at that moment is counted as unreachable, so the true share of permanently dead addresses is somewhat lower than 39.6%, but not for the DNS class, where a missing record is not a transient condition. HTTP 403 responses are reported separately for the same reason. Nothing is inferred about the content of a site that did answer: a parked page with an advertisement counts as reachable.
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