The Netcraft, an internet monitoring company has said that the total number of website have the reached a milestone of 100 million.
Yep I am quoting correctly it has reached 100 millions from the last count 30 months back when they were 50 million on May 2004. “There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them,” said Netcraft’s Rich Miller.
Commenting on the surge miller said that it is now lots easier to make a site with the help of tools then say two years back. Most of the top contributor’s to this surge are bloggers, Small business and simplicity to make a site.
There were only 18000 sites back in 1995 when Netcraft started tracking them.
The cost of creating and maintaining a site has diminished since the start of 21 century and the users no longer have to be expert in HTML to master the websites.
The day is not far when ID will become a URL on Net were anyone can visit and find details of a person.
Via: CNN
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drastic change within 11 years is a big bang.... shows at what velocity technology is developing........ really awesome stats!!
I would reckon the number is a little conservative if you took profile pages, subdomains, blogs etc. in 1992 there were about 50 websites with a little over 1,500 pages in all. It grew to about 50 million by 1999 with well over a billion pages.
When the Web 1.0 bubble burst around 2000, there were almost as many websites as there are now with almost 10 billion web pages if not more.
In fact, after the first bubble, the rate of growth in the number of websites came down considerably and only picked up along with the advent of the Web 2.0 thingy.
I would like to know if profiles and websites hosted with social networks like hi5 and MySpace or the blogs hosted as sub-domains like in Wordpress or Blogger count as websites.
Such stats should be taken with a pinch of salt.