Editing Website (section)

==History==
While "web site" was the original spelling (sometimes capitalized "Web site", since "Web" is a proper noun when referring to the World Wide Web), this variant has become rarely used, and "website" has become the standard spelling. All major style guides, such as ''[[The Chicago Manual of Style]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Internet, Web, and Other Post-Watergate Concerns |url=http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/InternetWebandOtherPost-WatergateConcerns/InternetWebandOtherPost-WatergateConcerns13.html |access-date=18 September 2010 |publisher=University of Chicago |archive-date=20 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220163158/http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/InternetWebandOtherPost-WatergateConcerns/InternetWebandOtherPost-WatergateConcerns13.html |url-status=dead |website=The Chicago Manual of Style}}</ref> and the ''[[AP Stylebook]]'',<ref name="AP tweet">{{Cite tweet|number=12296505018|user=APStylebook|title=Responding to reader input, we are changing Web site to website. This appears on Stylebook Online today and in the 2010 book next month.|author=AP Stylebook|author-link=AP Stylebook|date=16 April 2010|access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref> have reflected this change.

In February 2009, [[Netcraft]], an [[Website monitoring|Internet monitoring]] company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, reported that there were 215,675,903 websites with domain names and content on them in 2009, compared to just 19,732 websites in August 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Web Server Survey |url=https://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820181833/http://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/ |archive-date=20 August 2011 |access-date=13 March 2017 |website=[[Netcraft]] |language=en-US}}</ref> After reaching 1 billion websites in September 2014, a milestone confirmed by Netcraft in its October 2014 Web Server Survey and that Internet Live Stats was the first to announce—as attested by this tweet from the inventor of the World Wide Web himself, Tim Berners-Lee—the number of websites in the world have subsequently declined, reverting to a level below 1 billion. This is due to the monthly fluctuations in the count of inactive websites. The number of websites continued growing to over 1 billion by March 2016 and has continued growing since.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/ |title=Total number of Websites |website=Internet Live Stats |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170720110402/http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/|archive-date=20 July 2017 |access-date= 14 April 2015}}</ref> Netcraft Web Server Survey in January 2020 reported that there are 1,295,973,827 websites and in April 2021 reported that there are 1,212,139,815 sites across 10,939,637 web-facing computers, and 264,469,666 unique domains.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Web Server Survey |url=https://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/ |access-date=2021-05-17 |website=Netcraft News |language=en-gb |archive-date=24 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724033250/https://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/ |url-status=live}}</ref> An estimated 85 percent of all websites are inactive.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Deon |date=2020-05-26 |title=How Many Websites Are There Around the World? [2021] |url=https://siteefy.com/how-many-websites-are-there/ |access-date=2021-05-17 |website=Siteefy |language=en-US |archive-date=17 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517211328/https://siteefy.com/how-many-websites-are-there/ |url-status=live}}</ref>