World Wide Web

:For the world's first web browser, see WorldWideWeb.

Statistics

According to a 2001 study http://www.brightplanet.com/technology/deepweb.asp, there were more than 550 billion documents on the Web, mostly in the "invisible web". A 2002 survey of 2,024 million web pages http://www.netz-tipp.de/languages.html determined that by far the most Web content was in English: 56.4%; next were pages in German (7.7%), French (5.6%) and Japanese (4.9%). There seem to be an increase in Chinese sites since however. A more recent study http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~asignori/web-size/ which used web searches in 75 different languages to sample the web determined that there were over 11.5 billion web pages in the publically-indexable web as of January 2005.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~