How Many Websites Are There?
So, so, so many
Adrienne LaFrance | September 30, 2015
Most webpages die after a couple of months. The average lifespan is something like 100 days. That's longer than it used to be. In the late 1990s, the typical webpage lasted for around 44 days.
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Source: http://www.techmadeeasy.co.uk/2014/01/18/many-websites-january-2014/ |
But quantifying pieces and pages of the web gets murky pretty quickly. For one thing, finding a reliably representative sample of links for this kind of analysis is tricky if not impossible. There's also a sort of existential question, as Nicholas Taylor wrote for the Library of Congress in 2011: “That is to say, we take for granted that we know what it means that a webpage has ‘died.’”
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