Screenshot from . Interestingly, the internet experienced year over year decline in 2010, 2013, 2015, and 2018. Wonder why? Here are more sources they site to measure aggregate website growth: Internet Live Stats NetCraft Web Server Survey "Measuring the Growth of the Web." "Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history." How we got from 1 to 162 million websites on the internet. "How many active sites are there?" "First URL active once more." . "Twenty years of a free, open web." http://info.cern.ch "Weaving the Web"