The good news is that there are more than 230 million web sites, the bad news, only 30 million where added in 2008, almost half of the number created in 2007. According to Erick Shoenfled, in TechCrunch (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/08/is-the-growth-of-the-web-slowing-down-or-just-taking-a-breather/) the growth of the web has slowed dramatically in the last year, no doubt affected by the economic downturn.
During the 2001-2003 recession a similar drop in the expansion of the web was observed, so apparently there is a correlation between the economic climate to the number of web sites, in addition, the growth in number of web users slows to a crawl in the US, Canada and UK. Half of the new web sites created in 2009 are in China, where also the greatest growth in Internet users has been observed, 19% as per the article. Therefore, it seems that there is a clear relationship between the business climate and the number of new sites and the number of web users. Businesses are finally driving the growth of the web.
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