Internet shut down in Kazakhstan amid unrest
2022-01-05
In Kazakhstan, the year had barely got going when yesterday disruptions of Internet access ended up in a nationwide Internet shutdown from today, January 5, 2022...
How The Gambia lost access to the Internet for more than 8 hours
2022-01-05
On the morning of January 4, 2022, citizens of The Gambia woke up to a country-wide Internet outage...
Cloudflare Radar's 2021 Year In Review
2021-12-23
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....
In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond
2021-12-20
Join us in our Year in Review 2021 focused on the most popular domains-websites...
Thanksgiving’s biggest online shopping day was Cyber Monday, but other days were close behind
2021-11-30
November comes, the temperatures start to get colder for most of the planet's population (87% live in the Northern Hemisphere) and many are also starting to prepare for the festive season. ...
How the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving
2021-11-26
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....
Heard in the halls of Web Summit 2021
2021-11-26
Global in-person events are back. We present a few ideas from Web Summit 2021 about the future and where the Internet is going. Check the interviews we’ve done at the event (from the lack of Internet access to Web3). ...
Burkina Faso Internet shutdown
2021-11-22
People living in Burkina Faso are facing an Internet shutdown. Cloudflare Radar shows that after 22:00 UTC (the same local time) Internet traffic went down significantly, something that has happened in the context of social tensions in the country that started on November 14, 2021....
Sudan was cut off from the Internet for 25 days
2021-11-22
The Internet started to come back to Sudan (with limitations) this past Thursday, November 18. This happens after 25 days (three weeks and four days) of an almost complete shutdown that affected the whole country. ...
When students go back to school mobile usage goes down
2021-11-05
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....
Sudan: seven days without Internet access (and counting)
2021-11-01
It's not every day that there is no Internet access in an entire country. In the case of Sudan, it has been five days without Internet after political turmoil that started last Monday, October 25, 2021...
Sudan woke up without Internet
2021-10-25
Today, October 25, following political turmoil, Sudan woke up without Internet access....
Where is mobile traffic the most and least popular?
2021-10-09
We used Cloudflare Radar to find out those countries on the planet that have more (and less) mobile traffic on the Internet. Africa and the Middle East are the areas of the planet where mobile traffic dominates the Internet experience...
Increased interest in Spanish media after the La Palma volcanic eruption
2021-09-30
Cloudflare Radar shows how Spanish media outlets had an increase in Internet traffic after the volcano eruption on the island of La Palma. ...