Screenshot from Internet Live Stats. 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:
- 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"