An extraordinary system servicing three primary
World Wide Web groups: visitors, member sites and advertiser-merchants, WebRing remains
entirely open and free of charge to both visitors and members. As a leading online
navigation aid, WebRing is experiencing a growth rate of over 10% monthly. Daily
page requests from visitors exceed 500,000; member sites total over 500,000; rings total
over 40,000. The WebRing system can support a nearly unlimited
number of separate and distinct rings across the Internet. This unique structure allows
the creation and evolution of tens of thousands of different "web communities."
Each ring was started and is maintained by an individual website owner.
Through navigation links found most often at the bottom of member
pages, visitors can travel all or any of the sites in a ring. They can move through a ring
in either direction, going to the next or previous site, or listing the next five
sites in the ring. They can jump to a random site in the ring, or survey all the sites
that make up the ring. |