Wow, how big is the Internet!

According to Netcraft, the Internet now accounts for some 155,583,825 websites. But interestingly enough the number of sites only grew by approximately 345,000 in January as opposed to 5.4million in December. I have argued before that the Internet will in fact shrink in coming years as search engine rankings get monopolised by larger sites and sites will have a bigger Internet footprint through links etc, that simply launching another new site will simply become uneconomical (if it is not largely already for many). Could this be the start of less sites being launched – I doubt it, more likely just a Christmas New Years hang over.