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The Internet Now has Over 100 Million Web Sites
1sockchuck writes "There are now more than 100 million web sites on the Internet, according to Netcraft, whose monthly web server survey has reached 101.4 million sites. From the article: '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.'" This is a far cry from the August 1995 results that just cleared 18,000.
Nobody could need more than 640 websites...
And the 100 millionth site was www.PeenieWallie.com
What will the 300 millionth be?
Yes but what is the condition of its toobes? It's not a dump truck ya know....
Chums up, let's do this!
So, that's like 90 million porn sites? :O
I can believe it.
I wonder what the rate of growth in porn sites is. anyone know a number?
Netcraft has also released new information that the internet now has 999,956,522 pornographic websites currently.
Happy browsing everyone!
If this holds true... NERDS REJOICE!
Is the fact that that of those 100 million, *at least* 99 million are porn sites.
God Bless the Internet.
...we had over 100,000 BBS's! You kids and your new-fangled internet...
Palm trees and 8
are just stupid aliases for google spamming?
While there may be over 100 million web sites, not all have any semblence of unique content. Between phishing sites and domain registrars that pre-register domains and re-sell those domains (leaving adds to some search engine as a default), there's no way there's 100 million+ different sites out on the web.
That would be an interesting statistic - how many web sites are there with unique content?
Please print a fresh copy of the Internet for me, right away.
all linking to other blogs.
The other 10% are news aggregators like slashdot which mostly link to blogs, or services someone slapped a blog-like interface on, like YouTube.
I remember when the "google equivalent" was a web page with all the worlds web servers was listed. It rapidly got divided into one page per country....
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
The internet did not just reach 100 million sites - Netcraft's crawl reached 100 million sites.
The internet didn't double in size since 2004 - Netcraft's crawl doubled in size since 2004.
50 million more sites or 50 million more domain name squatters?
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
from the and-most-of-it-is-porn dept.
Funny ha ha, but a lot of folks would accept that statement at face value. At this point, measured in Netcraft's metric of "number of web sites", it would be interesting to know what most of the Internet actually *is*. Blogs? Personal sites? Phishnets?
If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on the hypothesis that the biggest category of "active web site" is the typosquatters.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
... and how many have yet to be slashdotted?
I think that number is wrong...
More like 99,999,969
How on earth could they ever claim this is an accurate number? The whole world is moving in the direction of name-based virtual hosting. One IP could potentially host thousands of web pages, all with different domain names.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
The Internet has doubled in size since May 2004, when the survey hit 50 million
How can an article citing Netcraft stats, submitted by a nerd, and approved by a nerd, get this basic concept wrong? The phone I used today was part of the internet. This week, I added half a dozen web sites to an existing box, on an existing single IP address. "The Web" and "The Internet" aren't the same thing. At all.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
How long until the creation of websites along with bandwidth-intensive things such as Bittorrent overwhelm the internet's capacity? I'm no expert, but is this possible? If so, whatever happened to Internet2? It may need to be rolled out sooner than previously thought..
I wonder if we could ever find the actual 100,000,000th site to recognize them. Bake them a cake... or something?
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10% are MySpace profile... i kid, i kid.
How many of these "new" domains are those horrible "parked domains" that advertise their own sale and link to other sites (presumably to lift their google ranking)?
I don't make predictions, and I never will.
...Netcraft confirms it.
Oh. Whoops.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
With people like me in charge of the internet, you don't have to worry. I have a Master's in Civil Engineering, several course in wastewater engineering, and I'm a certified Water Plant Operator in the State of New Mexico!
Back to work shoveling sludge.....
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
SEO spam accounts for what % . or derivative news feed aggregate sites. what about 3rd level domains, like myblog.blogservice.com .
This survey seems to be counting domain names, not websites. Aren't there over a million people with websites on myspace alone? stupid survey.
some other random loser gets credit for something I submitted over 14 hours ago and got marked as rejected!
They'd better count again. I make it about three more then that....
How am I going to download the internet now?
Are they counting unique sites ie "http://www.yourname.com" and "http://www.joe.yourname.com" or are they just counting primary domain names? :>
And how much of it is the "hidden web"?*
That being sites that for one reason or another can't be reached from a particular point, if at all. Let alone all the hidden content that search engines can't see.
The internet is overpopulated! There will be millions of web servers starving for electricity! We must limit our child processes through education!
because you can do ANYTHING at zombo.com!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Sheer count is nothing. Its sort of like counting cars.. sure there may be a mind boggling amount of them, but how many of those are actually drivable and arent sitting in a junk yard?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
That's kinda a lot... I guess...
only 60,000 are actual websites the rest are domain squatters.
Can you get back to me when the number of websites that are actually worth visiting climbs to 100? Thanks!
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the BSD community today. It is official, of the 100,000,000 websites, 999,956,522 of them are pornographic. The other 43478 non-pornographic websites are all running BSD and are dying. Film at 11:00
(Sorry, can't resist when it comes to Netcraft)
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
Every crap site added makes for more jusk that makes it harder to find anything worthwhile.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I really miss my 1995 website. Sigh.
~psybre
Authority questions you. Return the favor. -- d474
My question is, how many of these sites are phishing sites?
Zagreus sits inside your head, Zagreus lives among the dead, Zagreus sees you in your bed and eats you in your sleep.
how many of those are worth it?
My list:
1-Slashdot.org
2-Homestarrunner.com
3-Wikipedia.org
4-Google.com
5-Syllable.org
6-Flickr.com
And all open source related sites...
Some sites are popular but aren't worth the bits that they are transmitted on (eg. Digg.com).
Syllable 0.62 is here at last!!!
they should tell us which 4 or 5 of those are actually worth visiting!
100 million sites. Dang, we better get more tubes out there FAST.
So year over year there something like 40-50% growth in the number of sites. The question is why? Do we all wake up in the morning thinking, "I wish there were more websites!"
This just reflects that more people are coming up with more ideas that include having their own little piece o' web. It's not important how many ideas people have or how many domains they run. It's how much time humanity is spending online that matters. It's how much good the internet is doing for us. Just wanted to point out the number is really irrelevant for human quality of life.
That is, unless you own a hosting company.
I'm no expert either, but when we run out of tubes, we shall build a glorious new internet out of pipes.
Upon reading that they did this study in November 2006 (which means today), I checked the stats for my two websites. One of them was hit by someone in Japan - dunno how.... My other site hasn't been visited by anyone since 10/29/06.
Yeah, yeah - talk to me later about getting more web site hits.
Anyway, impossible that their study is complete.
""There are now more than 100 million web sites [CC] on the Internet, according to Netcraft..."
... Half of which are parked domains, "coming soon" or other typo-prone domains.
It looked like this in October 1996
w ww2.yahoo.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://
On a related note, I don't know if this has ever jarred with people like it used to do with me but it used to annoy the piss out of me whenever people referred to webpages as websites. Anyone?
... has a number been pulled, so creatively, out of someone's ass!
Congratulations!
.. with only one penis to enjoy them all with. *sigh*
(no, I'm not looking for donations, thanks anyway)
3.388579132890506E-4 % of the people on Myspace put down their occupation as 'Death Eater'.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
..and 99.99 million of them are crap.
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Netcraft confirms it: the internet is thriving!
Gah! Please mod my above post as off-topic. I meant to post this on the Aliens loader thread. Personally, I blame IE7 and the new tabbed browsing. Yeah, that's it . . .
I remember back before there were 1 million USERS on the internet. Then came AOL, and it's been downhill ever since.
Actually that's not fair. The internet has become the ultimate knowledge resource that I believed, back then, that it could be, except with banner ads and pop-ups.
Way back then I could read sci.physics or rec.arts.drwho as fast as my 2400 buad modem could download the text. Who could possibly need a 9600 baud modem? No one can actually read THAT fast!
-- QED
In the beginning, Al Gore created the internet. (The tubes were on backorder, but some friendly teamsters installed them a couple of weeks later.)
In the present, half the web is porn and the other half is making fun of GW's latest gaffe. (Essentially, the whole Internet revolves around bush in one way or the other...)
In the future, after Bush declares martial law the day before the election, the powers that be will step in and tell us which 42 of those 100,000,000 websites we're allowed to view without a visit from the men in black for one reason or another.
Webmaster
www.JakesJokes.com
...And there's nothing on!
Quis metamoderunt ipses metamoderatores?
... I bet a good half of them are spam domains, used to pump Google ranks, host tens of thousands of /search-terms/ folders, and otherwise useless sites with little to no content.
The quantity of CONTENT on the Internet has little to do with the number of domains hosted. In fact, the number of domains is pretty irrelevant, since it seems the bittorrent protocol hosts more actual content nowadays than the http protocol.
"I will trust Google to 'do no evil' until the founders no longer run it." Hello Alphabet.
Some sites have tens of thousands of hostnames all pointing to the same IP address - would this count as one site or tens of thousands? One example I can think of looks like this: Chicago-IL.ziply.com, Urbana-IL.ziply.com, Virginville-PA.ziply.com, anywhere in the US basically. A small number of sites like this could skew the results.
What about the deep web? Can netcraft's count be even remotely accurate?
100 million websites, 90 million new porn sites..
and I still can't find my fetis.. err..elephants.. err..homework..
FTA, it seems that Apache still rules the web, but I really have to wonder, what happened in May 2006 to cause Microsoft's share to jump so much? Did they release a new product during this time or something? It seems to be a pretty good sized jump.
when it will reach 1 billion? in 2015?
If I set up a DNS server with a wildcard A record, I can create a single web page providing 10,000 links to different sites, all in the same domain, but each with a different host name, each resolving to the same IP. Visit that page, and each of the 10,000 pages in turn, and you'd just have identified 100 million new sites.
Check the methodology at SecuritySpace, along with their Monthly Web Site Growth image (half way down the page). It projects an estimated "Active Web" size significantly smaller than that of Netcraft.
Is that including the servers that have burned up.
Doctors do Massage in Longview WA now, who knew?
I wonder if the title should say 100E6 web sites on port 80? My HTTP server keeps a low profile on a non-standard port. Was I counted, damnit! No website left behind.
Yeah but... Netcraft confirmed it!
(Ahh, the smell of burning karma)
Yup...
Didn't you mean "conjures up visions of crappy myspace pages"?
But how many are worth looking at?
qz
When all you need to index is 6 sites? :P
Exactly. Thank God for Cool Web Search.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
And I'm on Slashdot for some godforsaken reason.
I have them all bookmarked. Let me go count...
they didn't count the one I run at home.
-m10
Thats awesome, I accidentally clicked on the text of this post (using the new comments viewing system) and it went straight to the goatse pumpkin! No text style differences and no [goatse.cx] domain marking visible.
You know what I remember most from those times? Printed guides to the Internet! They were mostly collections of addresses with descriptions for the ones that made to the top of each category. I want to see them try it now.
100 millions web sites seems like a low figure to me. You mean 100 million servers right ?
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
to include them in a new anti-search engine that just zaps you through the internet, untargeted:http://www.webjumping.com/. Right now, it's based on a crawler that so far has only seen a tiny fraction. I'd love to have the complete, real thing in my database!
Continuous positive slashdot karma since... uh, maybe next year.
Not including the 150 million phishing sites hosted on the 250 million zombie systems out there.
Really? How can 99 Million Pron sites be bad?
If I am waiting for an internet, and it is taking days because of some asshole using a dumptruck in any of these 100 million sites, I am going to wring his neck!
${YEAR+1} is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
That's my site! I just put my new site online!! I'm the 100 millionth website!!1!