the big ticket item – a 16 - pound turkey – came in at $ 21.76 this year . the cost of the classic thanksgiving day dinner for 10 people has fallen to $ 49.04 this year , down from $ 49.48 in 2012 . that way , as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web , a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved . crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to . then the internet archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken , or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page 's authors . this is according to an informal survey conducted by the american farm bureau federation . the whole bird was the biggest contributor to the final total , showing the largest price decrease compared to last year . the goal is to fix all broken links on the web .