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@thomvaughan.bsky.social
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Web infrastructure and Open Data technology specialist. Principal Engineer at the Common Crawl Foundation.

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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We probed the 100,000 most-linked web hosts for IPv6 support using the Common Crawl Web Graph. Only 36.9% are fully reachable over IPv6, with adoption ranging from 71% among the top 100 to 32% in the long tail. commoncrawl.org/blog/ipv6-ad...
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Common Crawl - Blog - IPv6 Adoption Across the Top 100K Web Hosts
We probed the 100,000 most-linked web hosts for IPv6 support using the Common Crawl Web Graph. Only 36.9% are fully reachable over IPv6, with adoption ranging from 71% among the top 100 to 32% in the ...
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Thom @thomvaughan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
What can we measure about accessibility on the web using web archives? TL;DR Large-scale accessibility research can be conducted reproducibly from open crawl archives alone, and colours on the web are mostly quite ugly. thunderpoot.github.io/wcag-audit/ commoncrawl.org/blog/measuri...
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WCAG AA Colour Contrast Audit
Four in ten colour pairings fall below WCAG AA contrast thresholds. Static analysis of 240 top domains from the Common Crawl archive.
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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We've replaced our old Examples and Use Cases pages with a single searchable, filterable browser. 119 resources from 115 contributors, all in one place. Search, filter by type or language, sort, and share links. We welcome community submissions. blog.commoncrawl.org/blog/introdu...
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Common Crawl - Blog - Introducing the New Examples & Resources Browser
We've replaced our old Examples and Use Cases pages with a single searchable, filterable browser. 119 resources from 115 contributors, all in one place. Search, filter by type or language, sort, and s...
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Jean Golding Institute @jgibristol.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The Turing Liaison Team is excited to host @very-laurie.bsky.social and Thom Vaughan to introduce the @commoncrawl.bsky.social and the data products it offers. 📆 26 November ⏰ 13:00 - 14:00 📍C44 Biomedical building, University of Bristol Find out more: tinyurl.com/mrxp5h2n
Turing Seminar event graphic with details of the event and headshots of Laurie Burchell and Thom Vaughan to the right
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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
If you were able to join us, let us know about your experience: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The Common Crawl Foundation team took part in the United Nations Open Source Week in New York City this June, meeting with global developers, researchers, and policymakers to discuss all things open source and AI. commoncrawl.org/blog/common-...
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Common Crawl - Blog - Common Crawl at the United Nations Open Source Week, June 2025
The Common Crawl Foundation team took part in the United Nations Open Source Week in New York City this June, meeting with global developers, researchers, and policymakers to discuss all things open s...
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