The number of websites on the Internet has exceeded 610 million.

According to research company Netcraft, the number of websites on the internet has exceeded 612 million. As of February 1, Netcraft experts counted 612,843,429 websites and blogs. This is 5.2%, or 30 million, more than at the beginning of January 2012.

The study's authors note that among the most popular web servers serving websites and blogs, Nginx saw the fastest growth, with its client base growing by 0.27%.

The Apache web server's market share remained unchanged, despite the number of hosts it served growing by 19 million. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Google web servers showed a slight decline in share.