Web growth on a rise. Over 46 million websites already added in Q1

Netcraft comes out with monthly surveys on the number of responses received by various servers from websites. According to their April survey, Netcraft received responses from about 231.5 million sites. This number is an increase of 46 million or 24.8 percent when compared with 185.5 million as the number of websites tracked at the beginning of January 2009.



Interestingly, as per Royal Pingdom, this is more than the number of websites added in the entire 2008 year when the number of websites increased by 29.9 million and is almost equal to the number of websites added in the entire of 2007 which was 48.7 million.



If we take a close look at the above chart, you will find that Y-O-Y growth had peaked in 2007. With over 46 million websites already added in the first 3 months, it wont be a surprise if this year a new record gets created in some sense.