The number of websites in the world has reached 1 billion

According to the Internet Live Stats online site, recently, the number of websites worldwide has officially surpassed the 1 billion mark and an average of 1 new website has been posted every second.

According to official figures, Internet Live Stats has statistics from all online websites, blogs and tweets ( Twitter messages ), the record number of 1 billion websites officially hit the mark earlier this month, although However, the official number and date of the meeting has not yet been officially confirmed.

With such a huge number of websites, the Live Stats Internet site only monitors for certain websites that have full servers and access addresses. In addition, up to 75% of the statistic websites are not currently in operation or have not been put into operation, but have been registered with the licensing authority.

According to statistics, there are currently nearly 3 billion Internet users worldwide so far.

Back to the date of August 6, 1991 when the first website in the world was born with the name info.cern.ch. Few people can doubt that, an accidental idea in a technical paper by Berners-Lee computer scientist at the European Institute of Physics and now working at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland paved the way for a global phenomenon and impact on the lives of billions of people today.

In 2013 alone, websites grew by a third faster than the 630 million web pages at the beginning of the year to 850 million websites in December 2013, including more than 180. The website is active.

Currently, this number is still increasing and if interested, users can watch online at the Internet Live Stats page to continuously update the statistics.