How we detect route leaks and our new Cloudflare Radar route leak service
November 23, 2022 4:00 PM
In this blog post, we will introduce our new system designed to detect route leaks and its integration on Cloudflare Radar and its public API....
How we built it: the technology behind Cloudflare Radar 2.0
November 17, 2022 2:00 PM
Radar 2.0 was launched last month during Cloudflare's Birthday Week as a complete product revamp. This blog explains how we built it technically. Hopefully, it will inspire other developers to build complex web apps using Cloudflare products....
2022 US midterm elections attack analysis
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For Athenian Project and Cloudflare for Campaigns participant websites, overall traffic volume ramped as Election Day approached...
How the Brazilian Presidential elections affected Internet traffic
November 03, 2022 7:42 PM
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...
Internet disruptions overview for Q3 2022
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In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
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September 30, 2022 1:00 PM
The home page for Internet insights: Cloudflare Radar 2.0
Cloudflare Radar makes Internet trends, patterns and insights available to everyone, and we’re now making them even easier to find, understand and share....
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September 30, 2022 1:00 PM
The status page the Internet needs: Cloudflare Radar Outage Center
The new Cloudflare Radar Outage Center (CROC), launched as part of Radar 2.0, is intended to be an archive of information about Internet outages observed by Cloudflare...
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September 30, 2022 1:00 PM
Goodbye, Alexa. Hello, Cloudflare Radar Domain Rankings
Today, we are launching a new dataset called Radar Rankings, where we identify the top most popular domains that reflect how people use the Internet globally and per country....
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September 22, 2022 11:55 AM
Protests spur Internet disruptions in Iran
The Iranian government has disrupted Internet connectivity in response to recent protests over the death of a woman while in police custody...
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July 14, 2022 5:16 PM
How the James Webb Telescope's cosmic pictures impacted the Internet
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...
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July 08, 2022 5:28 PM
Cloudflare’s view of the Rogers Communications outage in Canada
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July 06, 2022 12:55 PM
DDoS attack trends for 2022 Q2
Welcome to our 2022 Q2 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape — as observed across the global Cloudflare network...
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Internet disruptions overview for Q2 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
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July 04, 2022 12:55 PM
A July 4 technical reading list
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June 14, 2022 12:55 PM
Exam time means Internet disruptions in Syria, Sudan and Algeria
As they have done over the past several years, Syria and Sudan are implementing multi-hour nationwide Internet shutdowns. Algeria has also taken a similar approach in the past, but this year appears to be implementing more targeted website/app blocking...
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June 10, 2022 10:01 AM
AAE-1 & SMW5 cable cuts impact millions of users across multiple countries
On June 7, the Africa-Asia-Europe-1 (AAE-1) and SEA-ME-WE-5 (SMW-5) submarine cables suffered cable cuts, impactingInternet connectivity for millions of Internet users across multiple countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia...
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June 09, 2022 1:41 PM
How Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee had an impact on the Internet
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...
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June 08, 2022 12:56 PM
In Ukraine and beyond, what it takes to keep vulnerable groups online
As we celebrate the eighth anniversary of Project Galileo, we want to provide a view into the type of cyber attacks experienced by organizations protected under the project...
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May 19, 2022 1:30 PM
Eurovision 2022, the Internet effect version
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...
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