Web Growth Summary

Wanderer Results

The rate of the web's growth has been and continues to be exponential, but is slowing in it's rate of growth. For the second half of 1993, the Web had a doubling period of under 3 months, and even today the doubling period is still under 6 months.

Results Summary Month # of Web sites % .com sites Hosts* per Web server 6/93 130 1.5 13,000 (3,846) 12/93 623 4.6 3,475 (963) 6/94 2,738 13.5 1,095 (255) 12/94 10,022 18.3 451 (99) 6/95 23,500 31.3 270 (46) 1/96 100,000 50.0 94 (17) 6/96 230,000 (est) 68.0 41 1/97 650,000 (est) 62.6 NA

Backbone Results