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It's definitely exponential. Would be great to see a chart for active websites over the years. Knowing that 75% are parked domains shows more how much people ar
by dsamarin 8y ago
It's definitely exponential. Would be great to see a chart for active websites over the years. Knowing that 75% are parked domains shows more how much people are buying domains only as a precaution.
- jstanley 8y agoNetcraft have been tracking active sites since around 2000. Latest chart is on https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2018/09/24/september-2018-web-server-survey.html https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2018/09/24/september-2018... (note log scale). They reckon ~180M active sites.
- MrEldritch 8y agoAlso worth noting: By their measure, the number of active sites has been pretty much stagnant since early 2012. I suspect that we're actually going to see that number start to drop over the next ten years, as old servers cease to be maintained and fall off the Web.
- dsamarin 8y agoWhat a stark difference! Thank you for this.