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Netcraft Takes a Stab at Some Numbers

If there is any accuracy to data released by Netcraft, then the Internet has about 182,226,259 sites.  That's 948,000 more than a month ago.

Netcraft looks at the number of sites hosted on the different top servers. The following graph represents market share for top servers across all domains from August 1995 to October 2008:

 Server Marketshare

Netcraft offers a more detailed look at the numbers of sites coming from different servers in this list. Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration compares NetCraft's data to that of another Firm:

Now Domain Tools also tracks all the different web domain names registered on the Internet and their count puts the total number of active domains as 106 million.

This is different from the Netcraft survey as Domain Tools won’t count the sub-domains since they are all registered to the same owner (like Google’s blogspot) but may technically be a different website and hence adds to the Netcraft count.


I wonder how many of theses millions of sites are blogs. Of those, I wonder how many are still being updated. Those are some numbers that might fuel the debate about the life of blogs.

About the author:
Chris Crum has been a part of the WebProNews team and the iEntry Network of B2B Publications since 2003.

4 Comments

I always wanted to know how

I always wanted to know how many websites are out there and couldn't find any info :) Now at least I have an idea of that number

Countrywise

Actually as Bob mentioned I wonder if this data could be broken down countrywise.  It would be interesting to see how many sites my country has.

Percentage increase?

Can you wrap up Chris per month increase?
Can we know the percentage increase in Indonesia?

Bob Julius Onggo
http://www.daxell.org

RE: Percentage increase:

All I have is what Netcraft has made available.

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