Internet Website Statistics from Netcraft

Category: Domaining, Web Statistics

Here are some interesting statistics open to discussion. A recent Netcraft report published a survey study showing the total number of websites and blogs is around 156 million.

Technorati claims that the total number of blogs alone is currently in excess of 100 million so there this data is open to speculation and interpretation. Putting all the details asid, what I found particulary interesting from this chart is the segregation of the to curves. If you look closely, you will see that arround 2006, the hostnames curve started to climb at a relatively much steeper rate then the active websites curve.

Have you guest it yet? I’ll give you a clue….it starts with the letter ‘D’ (check the category this post is in for the answer :))

So one of the reasons could very well be the massive buying of domains that expire my ‘Domainers’ and then parking these domains via one of the many parking companied out there preventing their development into active websites by ‘non-domainers’.

Another interesting data set was the market share between the different server types:

Notice that Microsoft and recently Google have taken some market share away from the legendary Apache server. Apache is however seeing some recovery (better reflected in graph below) of late after a very steep fall in market share over the past 1.5 years and is back over 50%. The negative impact was due to an increasing number of blogs on large providers like Microsoft and Google, using their own server software. I wander how far Google will get in acquiring market share in this industry? Most of it is due to their acquisition of Blogger.com and Google Page Creator (easy website creation).

And here is total Active Servers Across All Domains: