World Wide Web Growth

The July 2008 ^a Survey HostCount Statistics are just out, and:

One might extrapolate that the World Wide Web is growing at a rate (15.5404/.1555) 99.94 times the current rate of world population growth, down from the relatively higher ratio of 154.76 in the previous year.

Over the last 10 years, from July 1998 to July 2008 ^a

The Survey HostCount (a reflection of the number of Web Sites) contined to grow from 36,739,000 (36.7 Million) to 570,937,778 (570.9 Million), an increase of 534,198,778 (534.2 Million), or by a multiple of 15.5404 times = 1,554.04%

Over the last 10 years, from July 1998 to July 2008 ^b

The world population continued to grow from 5,905,010,529 (5.9 Billion) to 6,822,991,246 (6.8 Billion), an increase of 917,980,717 (918 Million, or 0.9 Billion), or by a multiple of .1555 or 15.55%

References:

a) The earth is a very big place, and the World Wide Web is doing its best to cover the entire planet. The Web continues to grow every day (Statistics compiled by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.)

b) There are (click here) people in this world – (population statistics from ibiblio. "not your average library" home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.)