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.

Even more exciting..

[realmolo]

Is the fact that that of those 100 million, *at least* 99 million are porn sites.

God Bless the Internet.

The number is grossly inflated

[Red_Foreman]

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?

Ridiculous

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

actual sites?

[countach]

50 million more sites or 50 million more domain name squatters?

Web sites are not 'The Internet'

[ScentCone]

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.