How Many Websites Are Active?
The Internet is BIG! Very big. However it is dominated by just a few hundred organisations and their websites. So how big is the Internet?
The size of the Internet can be measured in various ways, including totals such as how many websites are there, how many domains are registered, how many websites are being used, what are the most popular web sites, how much storage is required to hold all the web data, how much data is transmitted, etc., etc. The trouble is the Internet is so big that these totals and numbers change all the time. For this brief look at the size of the Internet the total number of active sites is examined. In other words you can type a unique domain name into your browser’s address bar and you will get a response.
So let us look at the latest update on the size of the Internet according to the https://news.netcraft.com/
In the August 2017 survey we received responses from 1,800,566,882 sites and 6,713,340 web-facing computers. This represents a gain of 32.6 million sites (+1.84%) and 120,000 computers (+1.82%).
Those of you that don’t fully understand the workings of the Internet may not realise that this number is just over three times larger than the number of registered domains. Why?
To get an idea on how much such a small percentage of the total websites dominate look at The Internet Map ( http://internet-map.net/ )
To get an idea on how much such a small percentage of the total websites dominate look at Icons Of The Web
( https://nmap.org/favicon/ )
The Best 500 Hundred Website Lists In Word That Is Top Ranked
https://www.alexa.com/topsites
If you publish a web site it is very unlikely it will get noticed unless you are prepared to produce quality content, perform Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and spend on marketing. Or you may get lucky and be the next big thing, as all the top sites were once.