January 6, 2026
No images, big feelings
Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics
Text-only internet hits big numbers — fans cheer, HTML loyalists roll eyes
TLDR: Gemini’s minimalist network now has 431k text pages among 560k active links. Commenters split between cheering ad-free simplicity (Dillo, Lagrange shout-outs) and saying HTML still wins, with a side of confusion over Google’s Gemini and jokes about “unusable yet awesome” design.
Gemini isn’t Google’s AI — it’s the stripped‑back, text‑only internet, and the latest stats show it’s thriving: 646,369 addresses tracked, with 560,646 working recently and 431,340 serving pure Gemini pages. Most pages are tiny (the middle one is about 1.4KB), meaning fast loads and zero ads, zero scripts, zero tracking. That minimalism sparked instant debates. One top comment jumped in to clarify, “this is about the Gemini Protocol, not the LLM,” while others cheered the throwback vibe and the escape from today’s ad‑soaked web.
Long‑time adopter jmclnx declared Gemini “the easiest protocol to maintain” and pointed newbies to the lightweight Dillo browser, while gerikson countered that HTML still wins for publishing, even as they recommended the polished Lagrange app. The mood swung between nostalgic joy and practical skepticism: is tiny, text‑only charming or limiting? Then came the roast: DonThomasitos dubbing the site’s design “at the intersection of unusable and awesome,” instantly meme‑ified as “Gemini chic.” Expect more hot takes like “bring back Gopher” and “I want fewer megabytes, more meaning.” Bottom line: tiny pages, huge opinions—and a community split between purity fans and productivity pragmatists.
Key Points
- •Updated on 2026-01-06, the database lists 646,369 URIs, with 560,646 successfully checked recently (status code 20).
- •Among recently accessed URIs, 431,340 serve Gemini content, and the average resource size is 46,339 bytes.
- •Coverage is limited by robots.txt restrictions, incomplete discovery, and a per-capsule Lupa limit of 10,000 URIs.
- •Overall median resource size is 2,318 bytes; for Gemini pages, the median is 1,466 bytes, with detailed quantiles provided.
- •Language and encoding metadata are largely unspecified; UTF-8 is the most common specified encoding, and 0.075% of URLs have wrong encodings.