Number of Web Sites Globally

 
Do you have a guess as to the number of Web sites globally? We think that the answer will surprise you. Before reading below, what is YOUR best guess?

Previously, we have posted often about Web issues. For example, see:

• Offer Trustworthy Web Sites
• The Impact of Web Site Speed
• Web Design Is a Tricky Business
• How Good Is Your Web Site
• Easily Create Great Infographics

Research on the Total Number of Web Sites Globally

According to Martin Armstrong, writing for Statista:

“On 6 August 1991, British physicist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland published the first ever Web site, the WorldWideWeb (W3). By the end of 1992, there were ten Web sites online  And after CERN made the W3 technology publicly available on a royalty-free basis in 1993, the Internet gradually started to grow into the all-encompassing giant that it is today.”

“By 1994, there were close to 3,000 sites, one of which was a fledgling Yahoo! which, originally called ‘Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web’, started its online life as a Web directory. By the time Google came onto the scene there were over two million websites. As our infographic shows, today there are 1.71 billion, and looking at Internet Live Stats’ counter, despite being lower than 2017’s 1.76 billion, this figure is currently increasing at a fast rate.”

 

WOW! That means our EOM Web site ranks among the top 0.2 percent of sites according to our Alexa.com ranking. (no, not the Amazon speaker system).