How Many Websites Are There?

Imagine what it would be like if it was your job to keep track of this kind of stuff?

But if you just want to get a sense of how big the web is, how much it has grown in 20 years, there are blunter measures. In 1994, for example, there were fewer than 3,000 websites online. By 2014, there were more than 1 billion. That represents a 33 million percent increase in 20 years.

select count(internet)

DONE

And 99% of those are most likely purpose built for bot and/or virus spreading.

Is this counting the URL squatting pages? I bet it is. From what I have seen, for every valid unique base URL, there are a huge number of fake pages with that URL spelled slightly differently.