Summary: Gemini space (or Geminispace) has grown to the point where it is not trivial to assess its full extent, but Lupa (data source of the above graph) is still trying
About three years ago Gemini started with only one or two pages. It grew over the years as more and more capsules came online (doubling in number over the past year alone) and it's getting hard -- not to mention expensive -- to keep abreast of it all. It's not cheap to crawl and re-crawl
millions of pages. Limitations are imposed on the maximum number of URLs retrieved per capsule, even for capsules that are still growing (ours is approaching 42,000 pages and there are
at least half a dozen capsules with over 10,000 pages in them, probably over a dozen capsules in fact).
It seems safe to say that there are already over a million Gemini pages already. We just lack the capacity to keep track of them all. We can extrapolate a bit.
According to
these latest statistics based on
Lupa, Geminispace continues to expand. From what I've observed here in
Techrights,
traffic from Lupa, the crawler, decreased a bit earlier this year. Yes, a few months ago Lupa was slowing down a bit, so it looked like there was a decline (we've been
posting no less than before) and judging by the frequency
we find new articles/pages in Gemini, compared to
past months, there's definitely an uptick in activity. In fact,
so far today we've seen almost 2 new articles per hour. There's no authoritative, centralised entity which tracks the growth of Geminispace, and none is desirable either.
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