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They run 2% of the websites on the internet: http://www.weebly.com/jobs.php http://www.weebly.com/jobs.php => "Running 2% of all of the websites on the Interne

They run 2% of the websites on the internet: http://www.weebly.com/jobs.php http://www.weebly.com/jobs.php => "Running 2% of all of the websites on the Internet presents some very interesting technical challenges."

runn1ng 15y ago
I would be really interested in their metric of "counting websites", especially in today's mostly dynamic internet. Do they count Facebook/Google, too?
cyanbane 15y ago
I have heard these guys run a great service, however that seems like an amazing statement. 2% seems like a massive amount - especially considering the international reach that I suspect would be needed. Anyone have any stats to back that up or how they came to that number?
- citricsquid 15y ago
  I'd be interested too, if we assume 1 user = 1 website, that means they have 20% of the websites that webs inc has (http://www.webs.com/company.htm http://www.webs.com/company.htm) which translates as webs inc running 10% (!!) of the internet's websites, which is an incredible figure too.
  - user-id 15y ago
    One user can have up to 10 free websites in their account (and unlimited "designer platform" websites too) so more than 1 website is the average per user.
- dsandl20 15y ago
  I spoke with David a few months ago. He said that the percentage was based on the number of active websites, which according to http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/ http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/ is 139,902,673. I don't know for sure if Weebly uses this number to calculate the percentage. But probably not, since it only indicates ~2.8 million Weebly websites, and they claim 11 million (7.8% of that active domain number).
  - Alex3917 15y ago
    Isn't this the number of domain names that point to a nameserver rather than the number of websites?
  - obtu 14y ago
    By that metric MySpace hosts about 100% of all websites, and YouTube hosts 100 000% of all TV channels.
waterlesscloud 15y ago
So you're saying their potential growth is limited by a factor of 50? Heh.
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runn1ng 15y ago

I would be really interested in their metric of "counting websites", especially in today's mostly dynamic internet. Do they count Facebook/Google, too?

cyanbane 15y ago

I have heard these guys run a great service, however that seems like an amazing statement. 2% seems like a massive amount - especially considering the international reach that I suspect would be needed. Anyone have any stats to back that up or how they came to that number?

citricsquid 15y ago
I'd be interested too, if we assume 1 user = 1 website, that means they have 20% of the websites that webs inc has (http://www.webs.com/company.htm http://www.webs.com/company.htm) which translates as webs inc running 10% (!!) of the internet's websites, which is an incredible figure too.
- user-id 15y ago
  One user can have up to 10 free websites in their account (and unlimited "designer platform" websites too) so more than 1 website is the average per user.
dsandl20 15y ago
I spoke with David a few months ago. He said that the percentage was based on the number of active websites, which according to http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/ http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/ is 139,902,673. I don't know for sure if Weebly uses this number to calculate the percentage. But probably not, since it only indicates ~2.8 million Weebly websites, and they claim 11 million (7.8% of that active domain number).
- Alex3917 15y ago
  Isn't this the number of domain names that point to a nameserver rather than the number of websites?
- obtu 14y ago
  By that metric MySpace hosts about 100% of all websites, and YouTube hosts 100 000% of all TV channels.

waterlesscloud 15y ago

So you're saying their potential growth is limited by a factor of 50? Heh.

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