How many total web sites are there on the internet?

[Vash]

When I first started my web site/forum 4 months ago, the Alexa ranking was over 20 million the first time I checked it. That means there are at least over 20 million web sites out there. Now my ranking is over 1 million.


Any idea how many web sites are there on the internet?
How many new web sites are launched every day and how many web sites are taken offline every day?
I know the number is changing every day.

[melissa]

Im pretty sure I read somewhere that it was about 150 million. You have to keep in mind though that thats just the number of ranked websites. Many many many more exist, they just havnt been ranked yet. Being at 1000000 is very good

[writer811]

Well, look at it this way; no one knows the exact numbers but I can tell you that there are very few words left in the english language that have not been used many times in website URLs. It's been estimated that it's between 250 and 750 million. As for how many new ones are created each day, growth seems to have slowed slightly on account of domains and URLs being traded and reused. Maybe several hundred to several thousand tops?

[AnonaMoss]

I have no idea, but I'd guess that if you counted all the blogs, forums, social networking, niche sites, etc etc, it would be close to a billion.

[KNH]

I am not sure if there is a definite count, but there is probably near a billion and counting!

[Victor Leigh]

I just checked on the figures. According to one report, as of November 2011, there are more than 550 million websites. The interesting part is that there are only 220 million registered domain names at that time. Which means that there are many websites running under the same domain name. Probably as sub-domains. The best part is that there are already more than 2 billion internet users. That's more than one internet user out of every four human being on this planet.

[Vash]

How many of these web sites are actually getting decent amount of visitors?
How many of these web sites are offering any useful information/function at all?

2 billion is way too many. Do we really need that many web sites? lol. It's like a million web sites for each topic. Overkill!

[izzypopa]

I saw a Google ad on a website i was browsing on and it said that there were over 256,000,000 Websites online and active, the target of the ad was to get me to sign up for a free website run by Google, and i'm pretty sure if Google says its true, it must be

[sunil121]

haha what a marvellous question it is... there are many websites may be uncountable..because in every minute websites are publishing.there are always new websites found daily if we search..no i think there is no specific answer

[Imoverthere]

Quite possibly there is as many websites as there are people in the world, so free domain for everyone! It's quite funny how fast the internet has grown compared to human population. Humans are in the billions after thousands of years, and yet the internet has reached passed a million in the much shorter life span it has gone through.