Total number of Websites

While the exact number of websites keeps changing every second, there are well over 1.7 billion websites in the World as of January 2020. Of these, less than 200 million are active. Most webpages die after a couple of months. The average lifespan is something like 100 days. It is amazing to consider the sheer growth of the Internet which started with 1 website in 1991 to over a 1.7 billion today.

If you just want to get a sense of how big the internet is, how much it has grown in 20 years. In 1994, for example, there were fewer than 3,000 websites online. By 2014, there were more than 1 billion. That represents a 33 million percent increase in 20 years. That is incredible!

Total Number of Websites / Yearly Table

Date.......Total Number of Websites....... (Active Websites)

January 2020....1 739 100 481....(182 223 445)

January 2019....1 630 207 412....(173 259 872)

January 2018....1 805 260 010....(171 648 771)

January 2017....1 800 047 111....(172 353 235)

January 2016.....906 616 188....(170 258 872)

January 2015.....876 812 666....(177 127 427)

January 2014.....861 379 152....(180 067 270)

January 2013.....629 939 191....(186 821 503)

January 2012.....582 716 657....(182 441 983)

January 2011.....273 301 445....(101 838 083)

January 2010.....206 741 990.....(83 456 669)

January 2009.....185 497 213.....(71 647 887)

January 2008.....155 583 825.....(68 274 154)

Websites, as considered by the official count, are those that have unique hostnames. In other words, they have a specific IP address, use a name server, and have a unique name (domain name) which can be accessed with a browser and found through a search on the web.