How many websites exist? How big is the World Wide Web? Since no one is in charge of the World Wide Web, the question is difficult to answer precisely.
After all, there is no one central "server" that runs all the websites in the world. The DNS registrars have lists of the domain names that exist, but not every domain contains a website, many domains contain more than one, and the registrars are not under any obligation to tell the rest of us exactly how many domains their databases contain.
So what can be done to measure the size of the World Wide Web? Has anyone tried? Yes!
The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a widely respected survey that attempts to contact each and every website that is accessible on the Internet.
Netcraft's primary goal is to determine web server market share: what percentage of websites run Microsoft's Internet Information Server, versus the Linux Apache web server?
But fortunately for us, they also count the websites visited by their automatic web-exploring "spider" software.
And in February 2007, the Netcraft Web Server Survey found 108,810,358 distinct websites. This shows how the Internet is growing since 70,392,567 websites were indexed by Netcraft as of August 2005.
Of course, Netcraft's survey isn't perfect - there may be websites in the world that were not discovered by Netcraft's software. So, as of this writing, "there are more than 108 million websites" is the most accurate statement that can be made.
Rightardia's Netcraft ratings change weekly. At one point were rated in the top 5,000 but couldn't keep up the pace with vacations and illnesses of our staff.
Rightardia is presently ranked 15,766 in the world. One of the best progressive web sites, the Daily KOS is ranked 1755.
One of the best conservative blogs, Red State's is ranked 8566. Hannity.com is ranked 80,204. The Huffington Post is ranked 114 and it started out as a blog and part of it remains a blog.
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