What percentage of the web is indexed by search engines?
Internet hard Data from 2023
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The answer
5.0%
Roughly 5.
Only around 5% of the web is indexed by search engines. The rest is the "deep web": databases, private accounts, corporate intranets and paywalled content. The dark web, which people confuse with this, is a tiny fraction of the remainder.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Academic web-scale measurement studies |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2023 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | percent |
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