The size distribution of websites

Steven Schmeiser

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 128, issue C, 62-68

Abstract: The upper tail of the size distribution of websites follows a power law with slope close to one (Zipf’s law). This finding is robust to measuring website size by unique visitors and page views, and holds for the United States, Germany, and the world. Web traffic in China has less support for a power law.

Keywords: Internet; Size distribution; Power law; Zipf’s law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D3 L1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.01.019

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