- "A Cyveillance Study: Sizing the Internet" Summarized
- "The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value" Summarized
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"Sizing the Internet: A Cyveillance Study"
Source: Cyveillance, 10-July-2000
- 2.1 billion unique, publicly accessible web pages, and about 4 billion by early 2001 if the current rate of growth continues;
- 7.3 million uniques ages added per day;
- Average page size: 10,060 bytes;
- Average number of images on page: 14.38 (median);
- Percentage of US vs. international pages: 84.7%/15.37%
- Internet still continues to grow at accelerating rate;
"The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value"
Source: BrightPlanet LLC, July 2000
- The deep Web contains 7,500 tarabytes of information, compared to 19 terabytes of information in the surface Web;
- The deep Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to the 1 billion of the surface Web;
- 60 of the largest web sites contain about 750 terabytes of information;
- More than half of the deep Web content resides in topic specific databases;
- Average page size on the surface Web is 18.7 kbytes, while on the deep Web - 13.7 kbytes, and median for the deep Web is 19.7 kbytes;
- Average deep Web site has a Web-expressed (HTML included basis) database size of 74.4 megabytes, and a median of 169 kbytes;
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