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30% of All Online Traffic Is Porn

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:10:00 CDT

Think pornography is popular online? One tech site estimates that 30% of all Internet traffic involves porn, with the world's biggest porno site trumping traffic on CNN or ESPN three times over, the New York Daily News reports. That site, Xvideos, draws 4.4 billion page views monthly—which means...

iPads Make Up 2.1% of US Web Traffic

Kevin Spak — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:17:47 CDT

If you thought the iPad was a fad, think again. Its share of web traffic has jumped 10% or more since March, giving it a full 1% of the world’s traffic, and 2.1% in the US, according to new data from NetMarketShare. Overall, June saw tablets and mobile devices...

Sorry, Google: Facebook Most-Visited Site in US

Matt Cantor — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:02:35 CST

Facebook knocked Google from its cushy No. 1 slot this year, becoming the most-visited website in the US, Reuters reports. Between January and November, Facebook saw 8.9% of all US visits; Google.com saw 7.2%. If you count all of Google’s properties, like YouTube and Gmail, however, Google...

China Hijacks 15% of Web Traffic? Try .015%

John Johnson — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:30:39 CST

The tech blogosphere was buzzing this week with reports that China hijacked 15% of the world's Internet traffic for about 20 minutes and did possibly nefarious things with it before letting it go. Only thing is, the real figure was probably closer to .015%, writes Andy Greenberg at Forbes . He...

Is China's Web Hijack Cause for Worry? Probably

John Johnson — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:23:44 CST

A report to Congress alleges that China briefly hijacked a chunk of the world's web traffic, including some from US military facilities, before sending it on its way. (The actual amount rerouted is in dispute .) China denies it , but tech writers are pretty sure it happened. Cause for alarm?...

World Cup Swamps the Internet

Kevin Spak — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:13:00 CDT

World Cup fever is gripping the globe, and the internet can barely handle it. Today saw the greatest demand ever for news sites, according to Akamai’s bandwidth monitoring. Akamai, the world’s largest computer network operator, has received 11 million visitor requests every minute today, a 233% jump above normal levels,...

Facebook's Traffic Tops Google's for Week

Will McCahill — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:00:24 CDT

Facebook’s traffic from US visitors hit a new milestone for the week ending Saturday: It took the top spot from Google. The social-networking site had beaten the search giant on single days before, notably Christmas. Facebook’s traffic is up 185% over the same week in 2009, Hitwise reports, and accounted...

Twitter Closes In on 10B Tweets

Harry Kimball — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:26:00 CST

Twitter isn’t growing as explosively as it used to, but the volume of traffic on the microblogging site is still expanding fast enough that it should hit 10 billion total tweets in the coming days. That’s up from a billion about a year ago, and 5 billion just 4 months...

Twitter May Have Peaked

Rob Quinn — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:36:16 CST

The number of Twitter users has flatlined in the last few months after explosive growth—and plenty of hype—in the early part of the year. December's total of 22 million visitors was down 770,000 from Twitter's August peak, according to analytics firm Compete. Some analysts, however—along with...