It is almost axiomatic that the Internet is experiencing explosive growth. The first important metric is the number of computers that are hosting Worldwide Web content for users of the Internet. The results below imply a nearly five fold increase in Internet servers between April of last year and this year. Next lets look at how much usage these servers are getting. Appendix A contains a detailed analysis of Internet traffic in the period from December of 1992 to December of 1994.
Traffic is broken out by type of activity.
Every type of traffic has at least doubled in volume over the two year period. Number of Internet Users Determining the actual number of Internet users is perhaps the trickiest task of all since users wander on and off the network and there is no real centralized tracking system for them. A starting point is available because every user that accesses the Internet must have a unique network address at the time they are on the network. A gentleman named Mark Lottor has written a program that surveys the entire Internet for every unique IP address and totals the count. The problem is that IP addresses can be pooled and shared by a larger number of people than there are addresses.