Q2 2023 Internet disruption summary
2023-07-27
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
Introducing the Cloudflare Radar Internet Quality Page
2023-06-23
The new Internet Quality page on Cloudflare Radar provides both country and network (autonomous system) level insight into Internet connection performance (bandwidth) and quality (latency, jitter) over time based on benchmark test data as well as speed.cloudflare.com test results...
Exam-related Internet shutdowns in Iraq and Algeria put connectivity to the test
2023-06-13
During the first two weeks of June 2023, we’ve seen Iraq implementing a series of multi-hour shutdowns that will reportedly occur through mid-July, as well as Algeria taking similar actions to prevent cheating on baccalaureate exams...
Examining HTTP/3 usage one year on
2023-06-06
With the HTTP/3 RFC celebrating its 1st birthday, we examined HTTP version usage trends between May 2022 - May 2023. We found that HTTP/3 usage by browsers continued to grow, but that search engine and social media bots continued to effectively ignore the latest version of the web’s core protocol...
Cloudflare’s view of Internet disruptions in Pakistan
2023-05-12
Following the arrest of ex-PM Imran Khan, violent protests led the Pakistani government to order the shutdown of mobile Internet services and blocking of social media platforms. We examine the impact of these shutdowns on Internet traffic in Pakistan and traffic to Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver....
Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2023
2023-04-12
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
Cloudflare’s view of the Virgin Media outage in the UK
2023-04-04
UK ISP Virgin Media (AS5089) experienced several outages on April 4, 2023. We examine the impact to Internet traffic, availability of Virgin Media web properties, and how BGP activity may provide insights into the underlying cause...
The state of application security in 2023
2023-03-14
One year ago we published our first Application Security Report. For Security Week 2023, we are providing updated insights and trends around mitigated traffic, bot and API traffic, and account takeover attacks....
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...
Internet disruptions overview for Q4 2022
2023-01-20
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the fourth quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography....
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...
2022 US midterm elections attack analysis
2022-11-11
For Athenian Project and Cloudflare for Campaigns participant websites, overall traffic volume ramped as Election Day approached...
Internet disruptions overview for Q3 2022
2022-10-18
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...
The home page for Internet insights: Cloudflare Radar 2.0
2022-09-30
Cloudflare Radar makes Internet trends, patterns and insights available to everyone, and we’re now making them even easier to find, understand and share....
The status page the Internet needs: Cloudflare Radar Outage Center
2022-09-30
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...
Protests spur Internet disruptions in Iran
2022-09-22
The Iranian government has disrupted Internet connectivity in response to recent protests over the death of a woman while in police custody...
Internet disruptions overview for Q2 2022
2022-07-05
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...
Internet Explorer, we hardly knew ye
2022-06-29
With the recent retirement of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, we analyzed Internet Explorer traffic trends. Breaking the traffic down by bot score revealed much of this traffic is “likely automated”...