The number of domain names surged 40 per cent to reach 2,592,000, according to the report on China's Internet information and resources 2005 published by the State Council Information Office.
The web page number soared 269 per cent to reach 2.4 billion in 2005. Each website has 3,748 pages on average. Of this, 18.6 per cent of websites are located in Beijing, 16.6 per cent in the southern Guangdong province and 9.7 per cent in the eastern Zhejiang province.
Company websites account for 60.4 per cent of the total number; then comes individual's websites, which account for 21.9 per cent; educational and scientific research websites account for 5.1 per cent.
There are about 150,000 individual's websites in China, which mainly offer BBS (43.5 per cent), download of music, novels and images (35.7 per cent), and academic discussion (24.9 per cent) and online transaction (11.9 per cent).
The report said that 44.2 per cent of people build their websites "out of interest and with the attempt to do something they like"; 31.4 per cent do it to "communicate with the world outside, and offer their references to others"; 16.2 per cent take the websites as "foundation for their business" and 6.1 per cent for "needs of work".
Not all websites enjoy high page views. Daily page view averages below 50 in 39.6 per cent of websites. The rate is as high as 51.5 per cent for company's websites, indicating the websites are not functioning very well.
Updating deserves webmasters' attention too. Only 17.62 per cent of websites are updated within one week. By contrast, 18.58 per cent are updated once over six months. Most websites are run by teams with less than ten people, the report noted.
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