How the coronation of King Charles III affected Internet traffic
2023-05-10
As the coronation ceremony unfolded, on Saturday morning, May 6, 2023, there were clear spikes and dips in traffic, each coinciding with key moments of the ceremony...
Effects of the conflict in Sudan on Internet patterns
2023-05-02
On Saturday, April 15, 2023, an armed conflict between rival factions of the military government of Sudan began. Cloudflare observed a disruption in Internet traffic on that Saturday, starting at 08:00 UTC, which deepened on Sunday...
How Easter, Passover and Ramadan show up in Internet trends
2023-04-19
How Easter (including Orthodox Easter), Passover & Ramadan affected 2023 Internet traffic...
How to stay safe from phishing
2023-03-13
Phishing attacks come in all sorts of ways to fool people. Email is definitely the most common, but there are others. Here are some tips to help you catch these scams before you fall for them....
One year of war in Ukraine: Internet trends, attacks, and resilience
2023-02-23
This blog post reports on Internet insights during an historical war in Europe that has been seen and shared online, and discusses how Ukraine's Internet remained resilient in spite of dozens of disruptions in three different stages of the conflict....
A look at Internet traffic trends during Super Bowl LVII
2023-02-13
We look at who the biggest winners were among Super Bowl advertisers, and examine traffic trends for food delivery services, social media, and sports and betting sites. We also review city and state-level traffic trends, as well as related email threat volume in the weeks ahead of the game...
Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year in Review
2022-12-22
We’re excited to present the Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year In Review, featuring interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet throughout this past year...
An early look at Thanksgiving 2022 Internet trends
2022-11-25
Yesterday, November 24, 2022, was Thanksgiving Day in the US. Last year, we saw how the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving. So, how was it this year?...
How the Brazilian Presidential elections affected Internet traffic
2022-11-03
What happens to the Internet traffic of a country when an important election happens. In Brazil, the first round of the Presidential elections brought a 10% decrease in Internet traffic, but the runoff on Sunday had a bigger: 21% drop...
How to enable Private Access Tokens in iOS 16 and stop seeing CAPTCHAs
2022-09-23
Nobody likes CAPTCHAs. Now, with iOS 16 on iPhones, a small enabled toggle can make them disappear while improving privacy on your device. Here’s how to check if it’s “on” and try it out...
Deep dives & how the Internet works
2022-08-25
We have amazing deep dives in our blog, but also research and how the Internet works kind of stories. Here are some highlights from 2022, and before (with glimpses of our history)....
2022 attacks! An August reading list to go “Shields Up”
2022-08-11
In 2022, cybersecurity, more than ever, is a must-have for those who don’t want to take chances on getting caught in a cyberattack with difficult to deal with consequences. Here’s a reading list what you need to know about attacks that is also a guide on how to be protected...
How the James Webb Telescope's cosmic pictures impacted the Internet
2022-07-14
We show how the July 11-12 James Webb Telescope images that were revealed had an impact on DNS traffic in NASA and ESA websites, video and image hosting platforms, and news websites. The ‘cosmic’ results may be surprising...
Cloudflare’s view of the Rogers Communications outage in Canada
2022-07-08
An outage at one of the largest ISPs in Canada, Rogers Communications, started earlier today, July 8, 2022, and is ongoing (eight hours and counting), and is impacting businesses and consumers....
How Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee had an impact on the Internet
2022-06-09
The UK's Internet traffic was clearly impacted with less traffic than usual during this weekend's celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. We also show impact from Canada to New Zealand and the royals and news websites...
Eurovision 2022, the Internet effect version
2022-05-19
The 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin, Italy, had two semi-finals (May 10 and 12) and a final (May 14), all of them with highlights, including Ukraine’s victory...
How Ramadan shows up in Internet trends
2022-05-16
What happens to the Internet traffic in countries who observe Ramadan? Depending on the country, we see clear shifts and changing patterns in Internet use, particularly before dawn and after sunset....
Watching Eurovision 2022 on Cloudflare Radar
2022-05-10
This year, for the 66th edition, we have a dedicated page for Eurovision fans, journalists or anyone interested in following Internet trends related to the event taking place in Turin, Italy. ...
Tracking shifts in Internet connectivity in Kherson, Ukraine
2022-05-04
Over this past week, we observed an outage in the occupied city of Kherson, south Ukraine, coupled with an apparent shift in who controls the Internet within the region...
The deluge of digital attacks against journalists
2022-05-03
In Uruguay today, UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day Global Conference is underway, with a 2022 theme of “Journalism under Digital Siege.” It is a fitting and timely theme...
