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A blog from the team at archive.org, defining web pages, web sites and web captures.
We define a webpage as a valid web capture that is an HTML document, a plain text document, or a PDF.
A domain on the web is an owned section of the internet namespace, such as google.com or archive.org or bbc.co.uk. A host on the web is identified by a fully qualified domain name or FQDN that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System. The FQDN consists of the following parts: hostname and domain name. As an example, in case of the host blog.archive.org , its hostname is blog and the host is located within the domain archive.org .
We define a website to be a host that has served webpages and has at least one incoming link from a webpage belonging to a different domain.
As of today, the Internet Archive officially holds 273 billion webpages from over 361 million websites, taking up 15 petabytes of storage.
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