Deep dives & how the Internet works
August 25, 2022 6:08 PM
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)....
How the James Webb Telescope's cosmic pictures impacted the Internet
July 14, 2022 5:16 PM
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...
Internet disruptions overview for Q2 2022
July 05, 2022 1:26 PM
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....
AAE-1 & SMW5 cable cuts impact millions of users across multiple countries
June 10, 2022 10:01 AM
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...
How Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee had an impact on the Internet
June 09, 2022 1:41 PM
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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May 16, 2022 1:44 PM
How Ramadan shows up in Internet trends
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....
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April 20, 2022 2:03 PM
US Tax Day 2022. How leaving it to the last day impacts tax sites
How tax related websites were impacted by the Tax Day 2022 (the April 18 deadline to fill federal and state taxes)? With the highest growth in April...
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April 11, 2022 5:30 PM
The 2022 French Presidential election leaves its mark on the Internet
What happens to the Internet trends in France when an election like the 2022 French presidential happens? Here are some answers....
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April 04, 2022 3:36 PM
Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause...
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March 29, 2022 12:37 PM
How the Oscars impacted the Internet (at least in the US)
How the Internet was impacted by the Oscars 2022 moments, including the Will Smith incident...
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March 09, 2022 10:11 AM
DNSSEC issues take Fiji domains offline
DNSSEC issues with the .fj ccTLD caused problems reaching websites on the island nation...
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March 07, 2022 5:03 AM
Steps we've taken around Cloudflare's services in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia
At Cloudflare, we've watched in horror the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As the possibility of war looked more likely, we began to carefully monitor the situation on the ground, with the goal of keeping our employees, our customers, and our network safe...
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March 04, 2022 4:10 PM
Internet traffic patterns in Ukraine since February 21, 2022
Cloudflare operates in more than 250 cities worldwide where we connect our equipment to the Internet to provide our broad range of services...
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February 23, 2022 1:59 PM
BGP security and confirmation biases
On February 1, 2022, a configuration error on one of our routers caused a route leak of up to 2,000 Internet prefixes to one of our Internet transit providers. This leak lasted for 32 seconds and at a later time 7 seconds...
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January 24, 2022 1:44 PM
Burkina Faso experiencing second major Internet disruption this year
The early hours of Sunday, January 23, 2022, started in Burkina Faso with an Internet outage or shutdown...
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January 19, 2022 1:58 PM
Tonga’s likely lengthy Internet outage
The latest Internet outage, in the South Pacific country of Tonga (with 169 islands), is still ongoing. It started with the large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an uninhabited volcanic island of the Tongan archipelago on Friday, January 14, 2022...
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December 23, 2021 3:51 PM
Cloudflare Radar's 2021 Year In Review
In 2021, we continued to live with the effects of the COVID pandemic and Internet traffic was also impacted (differently than in 2020) from it....
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November 26, 2021 3:51 PM
How the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving
Throughout the pandemic we saw different trends caused by people being more at home than usual, but Internet patterns also change at specific times of the year (like when students go back to school or when it’s colder outside) or on some holidays like Thanksgiving....
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November 05, 2021 1:01 PM
When students go back to school mobile usage goes down
September is the “get back to school” month for many. Looking at our data there’s a global trend: mobile traffic lost importance (compared with desktop traffic) in September 2021 compared to August....
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