Monday, October 17, 2005
Web Growing Faster Than Ever:
"Published: October 13, 2005
(After October 21, 2005, this article will only be available to eStat Database subscribers.)
The World Wide Web, as measured by the number of domain names, is growing faster than at any time in its history, reaching nearly 75 million sites.
The Internet stock bubble may have burst, and certainly no one is going to put it back together again, but the interest and involvement of people and businesses in all things online is at an all-time high.
The Netcraft "October 2005 Survey" found 74,409,971 sites, an increase of 2.68 million sites from its September survey. The gain makes 2005 the strongest year ever for Internet growth, with the Web adding 17.5 million sites, easily surpassing the previous annual mark of 16 million during the height of the dot-com boom in 2000.
The measure passed the 70 million mark for the first time in August, as the Netcraft survey marked its 10th anniversary. The August gain of 2.8 million hostnames, together with the July's increase of 2.7 million sites, marked the biggest two-month increase in the history of the survey and came just five months after the survey crossed the 60 million mark in March 2005.
The first Netcraft survey in August 1995 found only 18,957 host sites.
The survey includes domains that have been registered but not used, which usually means they are represented by only a simple holding page. On the other hand, there are instances where multiple sites use the same Web address. Still, as ZDNet writes, "Despite these drawbacks, Netcraft's figures... are still a handy guide to the development of the Web."
Rich Miller, a Netcraft analyst, told the BBC that the boom in Web sites is partly driven by more small businesses getting online. "There's a lot of innovative projects going on out there and very clearly folks are making money now rather than just buying Super Bowl commercials," he said.
This point of view is backed up by the new "Science, Technology and Industry Scorecard 2005," just released by the OECD, which shows that businesses around the globe are committed to the Internet. Sweden leads the way with 82.1% of its businesses having their own sites.
The report also found that the use of the Internet by businesses with 10 or more employees had become fairly standard practice.
In most OECD countries, close to 100% of large businesses (those with 250 or more employees) have access to the Internet.
For more information about online business trends around the world, search the eStat Database."
"Published: October 13, 2005
(After October 21, 2005, this article will only be available to eStat Database subscribers.)
The World Wide Web, as measured by the number of domain names, is growing faster than at any time in its history, reaching nearly 75 million sites.
The Internet stock bubble may have burst, and certainly no one is going to put it back together again, but the interest and involvement of people and businesses in all things online is at an all-time high.
The Netcraft "October 2005 Survey" found 74,409,971 sites, an increase of 2.68 million sites from its September survey. The gain makes 2005 the strongest year ever for Internet growth, with the Web adding 17.5 million sites, easily surpassing the previous annual mark of 16 million during the height of the dot-com boom in 2000.
The measure passed the 70 million mark for the first time in August, as the Netcraft survey marked its 10th anniversary. The August gain of 2.8 million hostnames, together with the July's increase of 2.7 million sites, marked the biggest two-month increase in the history of the survey and came just five months after the survey crossed the 60 million mark in March 2005.
The first Netcraft survey in August 1995 found only 18,957 host sites.
The survey includes domains that have been registered but not used, which usually means they are represented by only a simple holding page. On the other hand, there are instances where multiple sites use the same Web address. Still, as ZDNet writes, "Despite these drawbacks, Netcraft's figures... are still a handy guide to the development of the Web."
Rich Miller, a Netcraft analyst, told the BBC that the boom in Web sites is partly driven by more small businesses getting online. "There's a lot of innovative projects going on out there and very clearly folks are making money now rather than just buying Super Bowl commercials," he said.
This point of view is backed up by the new "Science, Technology and Industry Scorecard 2005," just released by the OECD, which shows that businesses around the globe are committed to the Internet. Sweden leads the way with 82.1% of its businesses having their own sites.
The report also found that the use of the Internet by businesses with 10 or more employees had become fairly standard practice.
In most OECD countries, close to 100% of large businesses (those with 250 or more employees) have access to the Internet.
For more information about online business trends around the world, search the eStat Database."
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