According to Pivotal Research Group, advertising revenue could be up 49%, driven by international expansion and the FBX advertising exchange, which uses Facebook to target advertising related to other websites surfers have visited.
Last year America's Securities and Exchange Commission SECC), the chief markets watchdog, set up a website that surfers could contact directly if they suspected wrongdoing.
Recently, in a typical heavy-handed intervention into the political realm, they forced the closure of a website where anonymous surfers criticised army life and lampooned senior officers.
The data is also among resources surfers' website Magicseaweed.com in Kingsbridge, South Devon, uses to create swell models - forecasts of wave sizes out to sea and their size close to shore.
So explains Michael Portillo, the shadow chancellor, on his official website, to web-surfers curious about his dress sense, angst and lust as a teenager.
South Devon-based website Magicseaweed.com, which provides surfers with swell charts and surf forecasts, forecasted swell of up to 40ft off Scotland.
But South Devon-based website Magicseaweed.com, which provides surfers with swell charts and surf forecasts, said the swell grew in size as it neared the beach.
Surfers have websites like magicseaweed.com that predict when and where the desired combination of low pressure far out to sea with the right local tides and winds is likely to be found at any given time.
The first images, seen on the Surfer Today website, suggest either one of them may have gone over the current record, set in the same spot in November 2011 by American Garrett McNamara.
About 700 million web surfers visit its website every month, ranking it among the top in the global industry.
