Editing World Wide Web (section)

== Internationalisation ==
[[File:World Map of Web Index 2014.svg|thumb|upright=1.05|A global map of the [[Web Index]] for countries in 2014]]
The W3C [[Internationalization and localization|Internationalisation]] Activity assures that web technology works in all languages, scripts, and cultures.<ref>{{cite web|title=Internationalization (I18n) Activity|url=http://www.w3.org/International/|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium|access-date=10 April 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416052903/http://www.w3.org/International/|archive-date=16 April 2009}}</ref> Beginning in 2004 or 2005, [[Unicode]] gained ground and eventually in December 2007 surpassed both [[ASCII]] and Western European as the Web's most frequently used [[Character encoding#Code pages|character map]].<ref>{{Cite news|author=Davis, Mark|title=Moving to Unicode 5.1|url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51.html|date=5 April 2008|access-date=10 April 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521191341/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51.html|archive-date=21 May 2009}}</ref> Originally {{IETF RFC|3986}} allowed resources to be identified by [[URI]] in a subset of US-ASCII. {{IETF RFC|3987}} allows more characters—any character in the [[Universal Character Set]]—and now a resource can be identified by [[Internationalized Resource Identifier|IRI]] in any language.<ref>{{cite press release|title=World Wide Web Consortium Supports the IETF URI Standard and IRI Proposed Standard|url=http://www.w3.org/2004/11/uri-iri-pressrelease.html|date=26 January 2005|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium|access-date=10 April 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207070535/http://www.w3.org/2004/11/uri-iri-pressrelease.html|archive-date=7 February 2009}}</ref>
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Between 2005 and 2010, the number of Web users doubled, and was expected to surpass two billion in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/19/us-telecoms-internet-idUSTRE69I24720101019|title=Internet users to exceed 2&nbsp;billion ...|work=Reuters|date=19 October 2010|access-date=9 February 2011|first=Jonathan|last=Lynn|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224041600/http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/19/us-telecoms-internet-idUSTRE69I24720101019|archive-date=24 February 2011}}</ref> Early studies in 1998 and 1999 estimating the size of the Web using capture/recapture methods showed that much of the Web was not indexed by search engines and the Web was much larger than expected.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lawrence|first1=S.|last2=Giles|first2=C.L.|year=1998|title=Searching the World Wide Web|url=http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/106/12/1556.full.pdf|journal=Science|volume=280|issue=5360|pages=98–100|doi=10.1126/science.280.5360.98|pmid=9525866|bibcode=1998Sci...280...98L|citeseerx=10.1.1.33.3985}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lawrence|first1=S.|last2=Giles|first2=C.L.|year=1999|title=Accessibility of Information on the Web|journal=Nature|volume=400|issue=6740|pages=107–109|doi=10.1038/21987|pmid=10428673|bibcode=1999Natur.400..107L}}</ref> According to a 2001 study, there was a massive number, over 550&nbsp;billion, of documents on the Web, mostly in the invisible Web, or [[Deep Web (search indexing)|Deep Web]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brightplanet.com/resources/details/deepweb.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404044203/http://www.brightplanet.com/resources/details/deepweb.html|archive-date=4 April 2008|title=The 'Deep' Web: Surfacing Hidden Value|publisher=Brightplanet.com|access-date=27 July 2009}}</ref> A 2002 survey of 2,024 million web pages<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.netz-tipp.de/languages.html|title=Distribution of languages on the Internet|publisher=Netz-tipp.de|access-date=27 July 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827044617/http://www.netz-tipp.de/languages.html|archive-date=27 August 2013}}</ref> determined that by far the most web content was in the English language: 56.4%; next were pages in German (7.7%), French (5.6%), and Japanese (4.9%). A more recent study, which used web searches in 75 different languages to sample the Web, determined that there were over 11.5 billion web pages in the [[Surface Web|publicly indexable web]] as of the end of January 2005.<ref>{{cite web|first=Alessio|last=Signorini|url=http://wifiscan.fr/research/The_Indexable_Web_is_More_than_11_Billion_Pages.pdf|title=The Indexable Web is More than 11.5 Billion Pages|publisher=citeseerx.ist.psu.edu|access-date=4 February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204182728/http://wifiscan.fr/research/The_Indexable_Web_is_More_than_11_Billion_Pages.pdf|archive-date=4 February 2015}}</ref> {{As of|2009|3}}, the indexable web contains at least 25.21&nbsp;billion pages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/|title=The size of the World Wide Web|publisher=Worldwidewebsize.com|access-date=27 July 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430051601/http://worldwidewebsize.com/|archive-date=30 April 2013}}</ref> On 25 July 2008, Google software engineers Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj announced that [[Google Search]] had discovered one trillion unique URLs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html|title=We knew the web was big...|last=Alpert|first=Jesse|author2=Hajaj, Nissan|date=25 July 2008|work=The Official Google Blog|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520100904/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html|archive-date=20 May 2013}}</ref> {{As of|2009|5}}, over 109.5&nbsp;million domains operated.<ref name=NI>{{cite web|title=Domain Counts & Internet Statistics|url=http://www.domaintools.com/internet-statistics/|publisher=Name Intelligence|access-date=17 May 2009}}</ref> {{failed verification|date=November 2011}} Of these, 74% were commercial or other domains operating in the [[generic top-level domain]] ''com''.<ref name=NI /> Statistics measuring a website's popularity, such as the [[Alexa Internet]] rankings, are usually based either on the number of [[page view]]s or on associated server "[[hit (internet)|hits]]" (file requests) that it receives.-->