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July 14, 2006

How big was the Web?

Tim Bray has posted Measuring the Web, an award-winning talk he gave in 1996 when he was at Open Text (Tim was a founder and head tech strategist; I had joined as marketing vp), one of the early Web indexing companies. A snapshot in November 1995 found 11,366,121 unique URLs and 223,851 unique servers. Current estimates are omigod unique URLs and you-gotta-be-kidding unique servers.

Lots of other interesting stats in the paper, including size of the average page, average number of embedded images ("just over 50% of all pages contain at least one image reference"), and number o links. [Tags: tim_bray web]

Posted by D. Weinberger at July 14, 2006 09:23 AM

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Remember when the Getty Research Institute was going to archive the web so that all those pages didn't get lost to history?

Posted by: Larry Irons | July 15, 2006 01:26 PM

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