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Internet statistics
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Wizards - Internet Survey - 6 monthly survey that tracks the number of host computers connected to the Internet: i.e., the size of the Net. Begun in 1994, over ten years later the graph is still on that upward curve.
- Netcraft Web Server Survey
- Netcraft tracks the number of servers holding World Wide Web sites - i.e., the size of the Web. Jan 99: 5 million; Jan 02: 36 million; Jan. 05: 61 million - still growing. Market share of Apache, open source software, still growing fast while all others including Microsoft decline.
- Global Reach
- Good website with global internet statistics comparing the proportions of the web that are in different languages. Also careful and detailed discussions and essays on the reasons for and implications of the rapid changes that are happening.
- CyberAtlas
- Marketing information about the Web. Useful stats tools page. In Jan '02, the UK has maintained its 3rd place, but China has rocketed up into 2nd - US (168m) China (33.7m) UK (33m) Germany (26m) Japan (22m) S.Korea (16m).
- Neilsen's web statistics
- Commercial information company, but usually something interesting is available free. eg, June '05, the fastest growing category of website for advertising revenue is general community websites - by far.
- Yahoo!'s internet statistics
- Links to all sorts of wonderful statistics and information relating to the internet.
- NUA, the Irish consultancy
- Also has good statistics on the internet. NUA reckons 513 million users worldwide in Jan '02 - 605 million in June 2005.
- Internet indicators
- Excellent internet statistics - eg, 1 in 6 people use the internet in Europe and North America; 2.5 billion hours spent waiting in 1998. Strangely, its excellent statistics are not up to date, but it is a good source of information with some really good links to other sites.
- UNESCO portal to the Knowledge Society
- Member States have mandated the Organization to keep them abreast with these new ethical, legal and societal challenges by establishing a permanent international monitoring mechanism.
About the Internet
- How stuff works
- Site with lots of clear diagrams that explains the nature of the internet and how it works (as well as many other mysteries you might prefer to remain veiled, such as how to set up a home network; how does a car engine work?). General menu: how lots of different internet features work; How the internet infrastructure works; How internet smells will work;
- The Internet Society (W3)
- Hear it from the people who created and invented the Internet and the Web
- Internet privacy
- Would you like to know what your computer tells about itself when you visit a website? This site will analyse this for you.
- The Internet Archive
- A project to archive the whole of the web. The Wayback Machine will take you back to an early manifestation of your favourite site - even this humble website!!, as www.suzannekeene.net
Infrastructure and technical stuff
- Grid computing
- This is an excellent summary description of grid computing, which will enable new uses of the internet.
- Research networking
- EC pages about the current programme to develop grid computing and the European research infrastructure.
