As of March 2009, the indexable web contains at least 25.21 billion pages. On July 25, 2008, Google software engineers Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj announced that Google Search had discovered over one trillion unique URLs. As of May 2009, over 109.5 million websites operated. Of these 74% were commercial or other sites operating in the .com generic top-level domain.

Source: Wikipedia

Further, according to Nielsen Online, average web usage statistics for the United States in April 2009, revealed the following interesting statistics:

Sessions/Visits Per Person:                                           36

Domains Visited Per Person:                                         64

PC Time Per Person                                            38:37:13

Duration of a Web Page Viewed:                         00:00:55

Active Digital Media Universe:                       154,525,974

Current Digital Media Universe Estimate:       227,941,966

Source: Nielsen Online

Darrell Woody

Gazette Staff Writer