Website archiving is the process of automatically collecting websites and the information they contain and preserving these in a lasting archive.
A 'web crawler' is used to crawl a website, extracting and saving information. Due to the complexity of modern websites, capturing a website with pixel-for-pixel accuracy has become a challenge for many businesses.
Web archiving is the only way of capturing web records in a form that’s timestamped and immutable, allowing organisations to replay their websites from a specific point in time.
Because websites provide easy access to information, they're regularly updated and constantly evolving. However, this also means that the content published can disappear just as quickly as it appeared.
Web archiving is helping businesses own the ‘digital truth’ by capturing accurate and legally admissible web records.
The key drivers behind web archiving include financial services compliance, brand preservation, litigation, and preserving information of cultural and historical significance.
Financial Services - Regulated firms archive websites to meet record-keeping and financial promotion rules from the FCA, ESMA, FINRA and the SEC.
Public Sector - Numerous national archives, governments and universities archive website data to remain compliant and preserve records of cultural and historical significance.
Brands - With brands at risk of losing their digital assets and legacy, they're adopting web archiving solutions to preserve their data to ensure they have an archive of what was communicated to their customers.
The MirrorWeb Platform is used by organisations all over the world for web archiving. With our innovative crawl tech, we're able to capture complex websites and bring your archives into our platform where you can replay, search and interrogate them at any time.
Every archive is time-stamped, immutable and held as legally admissible archives that you own. Our web archiving technology is unrivalled, it's the reason we're trusted by UK Government and UK Parliament for web archiving.
All archives are time-stamped, hashed and stored in the ISO28500 standard WARC file (WORM) format.
The client portal gives you control over your archives and enables you to replay any website content at any time.
Full text search across your entire archive and daily digest/comparison reports on all website content.
Identify specific content in your archive and review changes with our content comparison tool.
You define the frequency. Daily, weekly or monthly crawls for your website and social media channels.
All archived website content can be made available to eDiscovery professionals, litigators and other third parties for investigative purposes.
Stay in total control of your data by choosing where it's archived, ensuring full compliance with ISO standards.
Our cloud-based platform is light touch, requiring no infrastructure costs or extra resource burdens on customers.
All of your archives are available as a downloadable PNG or PDF to support your record-keeping processes.
