At the beginning of September, the number of websites exceeded 227.2 million.

According to a report from the analytics company Netcraft, the number of websites on the Internet at the beginning of September was 227.2 million. Let us recall that by August, the Global Networkwere counted213 million websites. This represents a 14 million increase in the number of web resources over the past month.

Netcraft's report notes that major Western hosting companies demonstrated varying growth rates throughout August. For example, Servage saw rapid growth in website count—its client base increased by 700%, or 1.5 million projects, in just one month. ThePlanet.com, Savvis, and GoDaddy each began hosting nearly half a million new websites.

Apache remains the world's leading web server, increasing its share, having managed to secure over 10 million new sites in August alone. Nginx also expanded its database by almost a million.