EOT at a Glance

  • Crawl dates:
  • September 2008 to May 2009
  • September 2012 to March 2013
  • Number of websites captured:
  • 2008: 3,305 websites
  • 2012: 3,247 websites
  • Terabytes of data captured:
  • 2008: 16 TB
  • 2012: 21 TB






The End of Term Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. Beginning in 2008, the EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008 and 2012, and is currently preparing for the 2016 electoral season.


EOT Web Site Triptych United States Central Command Dipnote U.S. Department of State Official Blog  Feb 13, 2013 Healthcare.gov Twitter  Feb 15, 2013

Archive Scope

The End of Term Web Archive contains federal government websites (.gov, .mil, etc) in the Legislative, Executive, or Judicial branches of the government. Websites that were at risk of changing (i.e., whitehouse.gov) or disappearing altogether during government transitions were captured. Local or state government websites, or any other site not part of the federal government domain were out of scope.