I agree with your sentiment, but I think your information is out of date. The percentage of Websites in English is probably in the range of 60-65%, or perhaps even less by now --- still out of proportion to speakers of English, but far less than 97%.
Some statistical work was done for UNESCO here last year that indicates that there is vastly less language diversity on the internet than is routinely claimed. And I'm talking about whole orders of magnitude of difference, here, not just a few percentage points. Don't believe the numbers provided by companies like Jupiter MediaMetrix and Nielsen Netratings. They're garbage, biased heavily toward the goals of the corporations (in the case of Jupiter and its offspring, the sale of "translation services" benefits from the belief that the internet is linguistically diverse..). Sorry that I can't provide a citation just yet; I know that the work I'm referring to is still under revision. --elijah
About 10% of the world's population has access to the Internet but 97% of web sites are designed in English. If you need reference for these statistics let me know but unless we recognize the importance and validity of other languages in cyberspace, we can find ourselves on the receiving end of the global spectrum.
If anything, we should encourage research and scholarly contribution in other, lesser known (to the English-speaking world) languages.
Jarek