In what year did the total number of websites worldwide first pass the 1 billion mark?
Answer2014
That milestone came less than 20 years after the web's earliest sites went online.
Source: Wikipedia (Website) (2014) en.wikipedia.org
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4 sourced facts about websites and web pages, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.
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Going deeper
In February 2009, about how many websites existed worldwide?
Answerabout 215.7 million sites
The web's total site count grew roughly six-fold in the following decade.
Source: Wikipedia (Website) (2009) en.wikipedia.org
Expert level
About how many unique domain names were counted online in April 2021?
Answerabout 264,469,666 domains
A single domain can host many separate web pages, which is why the domain count is far lower than the page count.
Source: Wikipedia (Website) (2021) en.wikipedia.org
About what share of all websites are estimated to be inactive rather than actively maintained?
Answerabout 85%
Only a small minority of registered websites are regularly updated or maintained.
Source: Wikipedia (Website) (2021) en.wikipedia.org
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