archive.org "Wayback Machine" snapshots of interop-2023 dashboard don't load

[dholbert]

The archive.org wayback machine has a handful of snapshots of https://wpt.fyi/interop-2023 , but unfortunately they don't seem to load properly.

For example: these load as blank pages for me (with the wayback machine header-bar): https://web.archive.org/web/20230212205238/https://wpt.fyi/interop-2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230328203511/https://wpt.fyi/interop-2023

I suspect there must be something that's not-precisely-captured by archive.org, e.g. some external resources or something else dynamic, and that's causing the failure here. It would be nice if we could identify what's going wrong and help get it addressed, so that we could get archive.org historic snapshots of what the score was on such-and-such date with the tests on that date (since the set of included tests changes from time to time, and that causes historical scores reported on wpt.fyi to be recomputed as well).

[dholbert]

FWIW, I just used the "Save Page Now" feature to see if I could capture the current state of wpt.fyi (and I checked the "Save screen shot" checkbox).

Results:

A snapshot was captured. Visit page: /web/20230626184159/https://wpt.fyi/interop-2023 A screen shot was captured. View screen shot: /web/20230626184159/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://wpt.fyi/interop-2023

The web snapshot (the first link) is blank just like the historical ones. And the screen shot just has the header without the actual content -- it's just got this with nothing below it:

[foolip]

@DanielRyanSmith can you look into why this happens? Probably some resource that web.archive.org is trying to fetch isn't crawled and saved.