{"id":6375,"date":"2021-02-03T20:41:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstsiteguide.com\/?p=6375"},"modified":"2023-10-04T00:41:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T00:41:14","slug":"how-many-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstsiteguide.com\/how-many-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Websites Are There? \u2013 The Growth of The Web (1990\u20132023)","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
The Internet is this magnificent place offering valuable information and useful services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did you ever wonder how many websites there are online? Do you know how many websites are created every day? Do you think it\u2019s measured in hundreds of thousands or tens of millions? Neither of these options is even close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While this is an interesting topic, there\u2019s a lot of contradictory information available online. That\u2019s why we decided to once and for all stop the speculation and put our own team of investigators on a quest to find the answer to the common question people ask:<\/p>\n\n\n
How many websites are there?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As of June 12, 2023, over 1.98 billion websites are online. It\u2019s estimated that less than 200 million of that number are actually active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How many websites are created every day?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As of June 12, 2023, over 250,000 websites have been created daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources: Internet Live Stats<\/a>, Siteefy<\/a><\/mark><\/sub><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n Our extensive research has also discovered some interesting facts related to the number of websites and internet stats<\/a> in general. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Scroll down to see the growth chart of how many sites from 1990 to 2023, what the most popular CMS is, what the most popular eCommerce solution is, and what the most popular websites and blogs<\/a> are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The World Wide Web as we know it is rooted in many technologies<\/a>, which makes it really hard to pick the very first website. However, we have to start somewhere, and what better place to start than with Tim Berners-Lee and his team of coworkers at CERN. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They are responsible for creating the HyperText Transfer Protocol in 1989, a protocol that enabled servers and clients to communicate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This same team also released the first text-based browser, as well as created and launched the first website, which was a one-pager<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n First site: http:\/\/info.cern.ch\/hypertext\/WWW\/TheProject.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n This web page was the first online guide about creating web pages, and as you might\u2019ve guessed, it was text-only. Nowadays, modern technology (such as website builders<\/a>) lets people create their own blog<\/a> or website without any technical knowledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What really paved the way for good-looking websites was the web browser Mosaic. Marc Andreessen and his colleagues at the University of Illinois created and released Mosaic in 1993. It was the first web browser that allowed users to use \u201cpoint-and-click\u201d graphical manipulations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Andreessen also co-founded Netscape Communications Corporation, the company behind Netscape Navigator, the most popular web browser of the 90s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Domain name registration<\/a> wasn\u2019t available until 1985. However, previous to that, some companies created and used domain names for intranet. The first one was Nordu.net, created on January 1, 1985. It was the domain of Scandinavian research collaboration. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe 1st website and the 1st domain name [History] <\/h2>\n\n\n\n