The exact number of websites in the world is impossible to know for sure. Estimates range from anywhere between 1.1 billion to over 2 billion functional websites. There are several factors behind these figures: increased web hosting options, lower cost of web hosting and domain registration, and the fact that anyone can create a website with relative ease.
With many sources providing different data, the best way to calculate the number of websites is to rely on the most trusted one. Netcraft has tracked the total number of websites since 1995, and the inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee attested to these numbers as well.
So, here’s last month’s total:
1,197,680,522
(Updated: 18/04/2025)
Trends in the total number of websites
Surprisingly enough, according to Netcraft, the total number of websites isn’t increasing — it has been decreasing for quite a few years.
For example, in February 2018 we had a total of 1,838,596,056 hostnames — and it’s been going downhill since then. While the numbers may vary on a month-to-month basis, and we’ve seen some increase in recent months, since 2018 we’ve never been even close to these figures again. However, if we were to speak of active websites, then there is some good news — their number has been relatively the same since 2012.
When it comes to the market share of all sites, nginx is in the lead with 20.48%. Apache, Cloudflare, and Resty hold 16.03%, 12.87%, and 9.36% respectively.
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