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The May 2004 Netcraft Web Server
Survey has found more than 50 million web sites on the Internet.
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The Survey received http responses
from 50,550,965 sites. The milestone caps a period of revived growth
for the Internet, coming just 13 months after the survey crossed the
40-million mark in April, 2003.
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By comparison, it took 21 months
for the Web to expand from 30 million to 40 million sites.
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May was the 16th consecutive month
of growth for the Web after a two-year shakeout to absorb the collapse of the
dot-com and telecom industries.
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The upward trend resumed in
February 2003, when Netcraft detected 35.8 million sites; about the same
number as the Dec. 2001 survey.
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According to Netcraft, the rebound
in total sites tracks the recovery of the larger Internet economy, as viable
companies and business models have emerged from the wreckage of the Internet
bubble.
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Common to the Internet Economy 2.0
is a focus on efficiency and cost management that was largely absent during
the boom years of 1998-2000.
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Netcraft has reported that recent
months have seen reports of strong growth for online ad spending, paid
subscription sites, online retail spending, and even modest revivals in
venture capital investment and dot-com hiring. On Thursday Google announced
its long-awaited stock offering, leading a pack of web companies readying IPOs.
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The first Netcraft survey in
August 1995 found 18,957 hosts. Previous milestones in the survey were reached
in April 1997 (1 million sites), February 2000 (10 million), September 2000
(20 million) and July 2001 (30 million).
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Source: www.netcraft.com
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Netcraft Survey finds 50 million Web sites
