World's web sites pass 100 million mark

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World's web sites pass 100 million mark

dpa German Press Agency
Published: Wednesday November 1, 2006

San Francisco- The number of web sites in the world has passed 100 million for the first time, Internet monitoring company Netcraft said Wednesday. The company said that it surveyed 101,435,253 web sites in October, up from 97.9 million the previous month. Altogether more than 27.4 million new sites have been added this year, Netcraft spokesman Rich Miller said.

The new figures mean that the internet has doubled in size since May 2004, when the survey hit 50 million, with most of the growth driven by blogs and small business web sites.

Netcraft said that the US remains the internet champion with 55 million website, followed by Germany with 15 million, the UK with 6 million, Canada with 3 million and France with 2.5 million.

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