I’m not sure that it is budget. UC Irvine’s website has many links to “Page Not Found” or requires that one log into a portal to find information that isn’t confidential (ex. dates of placement tests).
When one references a post or thread on CC, there is grey wording indicating that it was referenced in another thread (example ). I imagine that something similar can be written into websites so that when one takes down a page, they will see that there are links to it that will no longer work. Maybe it is on the back end of websites but people don’t pay attention to it.
Another thing that annoys me is when one clicks a link to find out more information and the second page has another link that just loops you back to the first page. 