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Monday, August 19, 2013

How many websites in the world?

So here I was sitting on my desk at work wondering how may websites are there in the world. The guy next to my cubicle announced Google had 8 billion websites indexed in it's servers! So I had to delve in and find out how many are there really.

So here's the number for today:  146,350,470

So, it was actually pretty easy to find the internet on the internet. So here are some cool links that have the relevant info.


Amazing website this:
http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/
This one here gives a changes overview, aka stocks-type:
http://www.dailychanges.com/
 There's a nice graph here but it's pretty old (Dec, 2012) :

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2012/12/04/december-2012-web-server-survey.html

These are the top registrars of the world:

http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global/
My company comes at No 9! Yay!

In the quest I also found a rather compulsive domain shopper:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57418250-93/meet-the-mann-who-registered-14962-domains-in-24-hours/
Happy hacking.

NB: This is an internet census of the number of devices in the world and what they run. This is an amazing experiment, please take a look:
http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html
 

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