The rate of the web's growth has been and continues to be exponential, but is slowing in it's rate of growth. For the second half of 1993, the Web had a doubling period of under 3 months, and even today the doubling period is still under 6 months.
Results Summary | |||
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Month | # of Web sites | % .com sites | Hosts* per Web server |
6/93 | 130 | 1.5 | 13,000 (3,846) |
12/93 | 623 | 4.6 | 3,475 (963) |
6/94 | 2,738 | 13.5 | 1,095 (255) |
12/94 | 10,022 | 18.3 | 451 (99) |
6/95 | 23,500 | 31.3 | 270 (46) |
1/96 | 100,000 | 50.0 | 94 (17) |
6/96 | 230,000 (est) | 68.0 | 41 |
1/97 | 650,000 (est) | 62.6 | NA |
NSFNET Backbone Usage Breakdown | |||||||
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Date | % ftp | % telnet | % netnews | % irc | % gopher | % web | |
6/93 | 42.9 | 5.6 | 9.3 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 6.4 | 0.5 |
12/93 | 40.9 | 5.3 | 9.7 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 2.2 |
6/94 | 35.2 | 4.8 | 10.9 | 1.3 | 3.7 | 6.4 | 6.1 |
12/94 | 31.7 | 3.9 | 10.9 | 1.4 | 3.6 | 5.6 | 16.0 |
3/95 | 24.2 | 2.9 | 8.3 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 4.9 | 23.9 |