How many pages does the average website have?

Question

Writing Yet Another Static Site Generator and am wondering how much work to put into the MVP's search function. It generates a JSON array of the site keyed by page name, title, and body text. My instinct is simply to do an array filter this time around. If the average site is under, say, 500 pages I assume this will be plenty fast.My Google fu failed with such queries as "how many pages does the average website have", instead returning pages and pages of articles about SEO and the minimum number of pages a site needs.In a world as analytical as web development I'm guessing there must be a ton of studies on this subject, but I can't find them.

speedgoose · Accepted Answer

Infinity. You only need one site to have an infinite amount of web pages and your average is infinity.

wheresmycraisin · Answer

For questions like these, you'd need to look at the distribution (in the frequency/probability sense), not just the average, of the kinds of web sites you'd like the SSG to make. If your SSG is for ecommerce, sample N sites and draw a histogram. If it's portfolio sites, sample those and do the same.The reason average would not make much sense is that the distribution of page count is definitely not going to be unimodal or symmetric.