Guess How Many Websites Have Been on the Internet
Netcraft has been publishing since February of 2003 and has given us a good indication of who is hosting the most sites and which is the preferred hosting software. Can you guess how many sites are out there?
Netcraft's latest survey revealed 525,998,433 sites in total. However, not all of them are activy; only 172 million are in active use. These numbers compare to 463,000,317 sites and 170 million active sites just two months ago.
If we travel back in time, we find that there were just 35,863,952 in February of 2003 and just 105.2 million in December of 2006. As far as the plain number of sites is concerned, the web has about quintupled in less than five years. For 2011 alone, the Internet has almost doubled the number of its sites as Netcraft reported only 273,301,445 sites in January of this year.
Apache is, by a wide margin, the most popular web hosting software with a share of 65.0 percent. Microsoft IIS follows with 15.5 percent. Nginx has 8.5 percent and Google 3.37 percent.
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Is that anywhere close to the total population of the world?
Nah!!! I think we'll see a population of sites equal to the actual worlds population within the next 10 years though.
I wonder if this is just the surface web websites included in this number.
Recent news says that world population is at 7 billion, that, 7,000,000,000.
Wonder how many of those sites are pr0n
That's a lotta boobs
Netcraft's latest survey revealed 525,998,433 sites in total. However, not all of them are activy
I assume the guy meant "Active"
I'd think 100,000 of those sites or registered domains are owned by chinese gold sellers, trying to steal MMORPG accounts.
this isn't really that interesting.
@Theonlydz: It was interesting enough to draw your attention.
Wonder how many of those sites are pr0n
most likely half of them, lol....who needs porn sites when you can torrent
Interesting to see that there are less active web sites than there are facebook pages...
Also, that number obviously do not take the deep web into account.
I used my lucky # 5 as usual to guess. I was a bit off.
Nginx is pretty solid but has a hell of a learning curve...
most likely half of them, lol....who needs porn sites when you can torrent
Who needs to torrent when you can stream instantly imho
Ya
"most likely half of them, lol....who needs porn sites when you can torrent"
Usenet 100Mbps down. No up. SSL. Never hit my cap. Don't understand why people use torrents so much. People getting sued for copyright. I know people constantly getting warning from there IP's. I know one guy pulling his hair out trying to use proxies so he does not get caught. People who think they are slick downloading from work. And the people who think they are in the know for using torrents.
Who needs to torrent when you can stream instantly imho
Who needs to stream when you can just have sex imho
Netcraft's latest survey revealed 525,998,433 sites in total. However, not all of them are activyI assume the guy meant "Active"
Nah I think they were talking about that yogurt with live cultures. I could be wrong and you could be right.
i dont care
I would like to see/know the first 100 websites ever created.
That's just websites.. Imagine web PAGES or links between them..
Who needs to torrent when you can stream instantly imho
good point
Who needs to stream when you can just have sex imho
Who needs sex when you have porn imho
Only 172 million active sites? I expected more than that.