I am trying to find any estimates of website presence, traffic, or
pages by type of website content.
The closest I have found is this Verisign report by domain type but
it does not even separate out gov and edu top level domains:
http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/why-verisign/research-trends/domain-name-industry-brief/index.xhtml
The Wikipedia article on websites lists a taxonomy of 43 types of
website but they are mainly by function. Statistics on that would be
nice but unlikely.
Also, I can use Google-indexed pages to get estimates of presence
when a sector is well-characterized by a single word, but greater
precision would be nice.
I would like to be able to evaluate the validity of claims like "12"
of the web is porn" and "one half of one percent of web pages
represent nonprofits."
Thanks in advance.
Ron
Ron Anderson, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, 952-473-5910
Websites: http://umn.edu/home/rea and http://www.CompassionateSocieties.org