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!