How Many Websites Are There in the World? UPDATED DAILY

How many websites are on the Internet?

While the exact number of websites keeps changing every second, there are well over 1.4 billion sites on the world wide web (1,354,989,060 according to Netcraft's October 2025 Web Server Survey, compared to 1,131,068,688 in October 2024).

The milestone of 1 billion websites was reached in September 2014 followed by a bounce back to under 1 billion for one and half years.

The total number of websites on the Internet reached 1 billion again only in March 2016.

Today this number continues to change as you read this article.

Although there are over a billion websites out there, not all of them are active.

Only about 15% of all websites in the world are active and being used in some fashion.

The remaining 85% of all websites are not active. Instead, most of them are parked domains or have a similar function.

As of October 2025, there are 206,211,019 active websites and 1,148,778,041 inactive websites in the World.

In other words, the total number of active websites is almost 6x less than the total number of inactive websites.

Okay, we already know how many websites are on the Internet. Now, what about the web pages?

How many pages are on the Internet?

As you probably know, a webpage is something different from a website.

Web pages are compound parts of websites and sites usually consist of one or more web pages.

Currently, the absolute number of all existing web pages on the Internet is unknown.

But, there is an estimation.

According to the research project (updated daily) by Tilburg University (The Netherlands) Indexed Web contains at least 4.57 billion pages (4 October 2024).

But the actual size seems to be more than 50 billion pages.

A domain name is the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or simply the address of a website.

All those millions of individuals, businesses, and organizations own domain names to provide the general public easy access to their web resources.

So, how many domains are there on the Internet?

There is no precise number of all active domain names out there. This figure is ever-changing.

However, we know that approximately 350.4 million registrations of domain names have been made as of Q4 2022.

Most of the growth occurs in the .com and .net top-level domains – approximately 173.8 million domain name registrations.

As per our calculations, approximately 175 new websites are created every minute! So around 252,000 new websites are created every day worldwide.

In the absence of any reliable data on this, the best thing we can do here is to come up with a rough estimation.

For the purposes of this section, we have measured the change in the total number of websites worldwide per minute. We found out that every minute the number of sites grew approximately by 175.

This means that every 24 hours we get a 252,000 increase in the total number of websites worldwide!

There are 133,361,676 websites in the US as of August 2021.

It is hard to answer this question in a straightforward way.

Most of all, because it is not quite clear what we exactly mean when we say "websites in the US".

What we can do instead is to look at the total number of domains managed by US registrars. Based on this specific criterion there are 133,361,676 websites in the US.

This is the number of domains registered by the US registrars as of August 2021.

Currently, about 76.17% of the World's top websites are mobile-friendly.

Mobile has become a big deal lately. With each coming year more and more things start to happen on mobile.

The data showed that 76.17% of Alexa Top 1 million sites were mobile-friendly as of April 2018.

23.83% websites were not mobile-friendly.

Between 50 billion and hundreds of billions (the exact figure is unknown) web pages are currently indexed by Google. As for the websites, there is no official information on the number of websites in the Google Index.

Generally, search engines (including Google) focus more on individual webpages, not on websites.

According to World Wide Web Size Project, the estimated number of webpages indexed in Google is about 50 billion.

What is the most popular website in the world?

Google.

Google is currently the most popular website on the Internet according to Alexa Top 500 Global Sites Rating (retired since May 1, 2022).

Google is indisputably number one in many parts of the globe. But not everywhere.

For example, Baidu is the number one website in China. VK and Yandex are the most popular websites in Russia.

All things considered, the growth of websites has been quite remarkable thanks in large part to a decision taken on April 30th, 1993 by CERN.

This decision made the world wide web available on a basis that was free of royalties.

In essence, it became a public domain which allowed people around the world to create their own websites.

While the growth of the web has been explosive, one of the biggest jumps occurred in 2013 when the web grew by almost a third.

How many websites are there on the Internet today? Over a billion! But it all started with a single website.

The first website of the Internet went live on August 6, 1991. It was about the World Wide Web project itself.

The first website of the Internet was hosted at CERN on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer.

In 2013 CERN restored the world's first website on its original address.

As a result, the first website of the internet is still available today.

The size, scope, and amount of information on the Internet keeps growing all the time, non-stop, 24/7/365.

The Internet is huge in terms of its size. It contains a massive amount of constantly growing information in different formats (text, images, video, audio, etc.).

As of the latest available statistics, the Internet has roughly 5.18 billion users:

This represents about 65% of the total population of the earth!

It is estimated that by 2025, given the current rate of growth, the global traffic on the Internet will reach 175 zettabytes.