The number of websites has gone above one billion for the first time and is still growing.
According to figures updated in real time by online tracker Internet Live Stats and tweeted by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, considered the father of the World Wide Web, more than a billion companies and individuals have their own page.
The news comes as the agency responsible for managing addresses on the internet expands choices far beyond “.com” and “.net” to provide more online real estate for the booming ranks of websites.
That sort of growth is not back for a technology which turned 25 in April this year. The WWW was born from a technical paper from Sir Tim, then an obscure, young computer scientist at a CERN lab in Switzerland. Sir Tim outlined a way to easily access files on linked computers.
More than 40 percent of the world’s population now has an Internet connection, and the number of Internet users in the world is quickly approaching three billion with almost 50 percent of them coming from Asia.
This means 2,334,479 emails are sent in one second, some of them are not for get rich schemes, or penis enlargement.
More than 75 percent of websites today aren’t active but are “parked domains or similar.” More than 88,670 YouTube videos are viewed in a second. It is not clear how many of these are cat related.
The number of new websites more than doubled between 2011 and 2012, but it decreased by more than 20 million in 2013.
On the downside more than 25,000 websites have been hacked and are probably serving up some of the emails we mentioned earlier.
