100 Million Websites

2nd Nov 2006 · Posted in News by admin · 1 Comment

There are now more than 100 million web sites on the Internet, which gained 3.5 million sites last month to continue the dynamic growth seen throughout 2006. In the November 2006 survey we received responses from 101,435,253 sites, up from 97.9 million sites last month.

The 100 million site milestone caps an extraordinary year in which the Internet has already added 27.4 million sites, easily topping the previous full-year growth record of 17 million from 2005. The Internet has doubled in size since May 2004, when the survey hit 50 million.

Blogs and small business web sites have driven the explosive growth this year, with huge increases at free blogging services at Google and Microsoft. Domain industry juggernauts Go Daddy (U.S.) and 1&1 Internet (Germany) have also seen strong demand for low-priced domain names and shared hosting accounts.

While certainly any statistics of this nature have to be taken with a grain of salt, the hostname/webserver count is an important measure of Internet growth. If I understand correctly, Netcraft measures their statistics based on hosts that deliver webpages, but the definition of a “web site” might differ from that description, depending on who you talk to.

[via Netcraft]

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  1. techitalia.com » 100 milioni! said (on November 2nd, 2006 at 7:55 pm)

    [...] DomainEditorial riporta oggi che secondo uno studio di NetCraftla rete ha più di 100 MILIONI di siti… 101.435.253 per l’esattezza. Dal 2004 a oggi la rete è quasi raddopiata, e solo nel 2005 – 2006 sono stati aperti più di 24 milioni di siti. [...]

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