Cloudflare dishes up the stats on internet traffic in 2023 Cloudflare says that global internet traffic grew 25 percent this year, while Google regained its crown as the most visited web destination. Only a third of IPv6-capable requests were actually made over IPv6, and a third of all global bot traffic came from the US. These figures are drawn from the 2023 Year in Review report …
wolfetone: "Twitter out of the Top 10 compared to last year. All part of the bigger picture isn't it Elon?"
Is this Elon a friend of yours?
Given the assaults against Musk and Twitter, the Washington swamp must be desperately afraid of virtually the only truly free speech platform left on the Internet. What's ironic is that Musk would most probably not bought if the SEC had not sued him.
Conspiracy nonsense. Brands, and anyone with any morals, just don't want to be associated with anti-semitic Nazi sympathisers or platforms that give space to cretins like Trump, Andrew Tate and Alex Jones.
There are no "attacks". Freedom of speech does not guarantee freedom from consequence. Just as Musk has the right to give voice to the scum of the earth, everyone else has the right to boycott it, advertisers included. If the idiot wants to give said scum a platform then they can pay for it or he can fund it. No one is talking of talking Twitter down. They are just using their own freedom of choice whether to use it or not.
I believe the last time I commented on it was 3 years after I was told it was imminent on a post where I complained that The Reg had been promising it for at least 8 years prior to that. That was a year or so ago.
I've stopped taking any tech advice posted here because they can't do something really quite simple which they keep subtly berating us all for "not doing". Hell, that's if we were ignore that debacle where they tried to post "business" IT topics and the site went to sewage for a good few months until they realised it wasn't their audience at all.
P.S. My own personally-hosted website, email, NTP and other servers have offered IPv6 for over 12 years at least.
Eat your own dogfood, Reg, or stop even joking about it.
Would be nice to see how they defined traffic.
Is it number of http(s) requests?
Is it number of bytes?
If it is number of requests an increase might not necessarily mean more activity e.g. someone could rewrite a simple web page to add shed loads of JS calls to render different data so get faster page load, though still may take a while before all data renders (hopefully async js if they must add js at all) and so instead of the page being displayed with one call, there may be several calls involved to give same content as before.
Similarly if measuring bytes, if lots of js (stares at ad / tracker scripts especially), "hidden" SEO text content etc. is added to a previously simple web page, then may be a lot more bytes for same visible content as before,
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