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AI competition intensified in 2025 as ChatGPT gained strong challengers. Instagram climbed, X declined, and platforms like Shopee, Temu, and Kwai reshaped global Internet usage. Our 2025 DNS data shows how Internet patterns evolved.
We present our 6th annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed across the globe, revealing the disruptions, advances and metrics that defined 2025.
Cloudflare used historical data to investigate reports of potential new firewall tests in Turkmenistan. Shifts in TCP resets/timeouts across ASNs corroborate large-scale network control system changes.
Fogos.pt, a volunteer-run wildfire tracker in Portugal, grew from a side project into a critical national resource used by citizens, media, and government. During 2025 fire season it was hit by DDoS
Looking at which Generative AI services are more popular, new entrants into the space, how these services have grown in traffic, where that traffic originates, and others.
This blog examines how diverse cultural celebrations — from Western Christmas to Orthodox and Lunar New Year festivities — shape global Internet traffic.
2024 ended with a bang. Cloudflare mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack peaking at 5.6 Tbps.
On January 19, 2025, ByteDance suspended TikTok and related apps for US users. We examine the 14-hour traffic plunge, recovery near Donald Trump’s inauguration.
On January 19, 2025, ByteDance shut down access to TikTok and other owned/operated apps for US users, causing an 85% traffic plunge and a rapid shift to alternatives like RedNote.
From Christmas Eve dinners in Europe to New Year’s Eve countdowns in Asia, Cloudflare data reveals how global festivities have typically shaped Internet usage and cultural rhythms
In 2024, as elections took place across over 60 countries, the Internet became both a battleground for cyberattacks and a vital platform for democratic engagement.
The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns at both a global and country/region level.
The 2024 popular Internet services landscape highlights rising generative AI, e-commerce shifts, and the continued dominance of platforms like Google and Facebook, as revealed by Cloudflare’s rankings
How significant are Cyber Week shopping days on the Internet? Is it a global phenomenon? Does E-commerce interest peak on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, and are attacks increasing during this time?
If we plot the metrics associated with large DDoS attacks observed in the last 10 years, does it show a straight, steady increase in an exponential curve that keeps becoming steeper, or is it closer to a linear growth? Our analysis found the growth is not linear but rather is exponential, with the slope varying depending on the metric (rps, pps or bps).
Election Day 2024 in the US saw a surge in cyber activity. Cloudflare blocked several DDoS attacks on political and election sites, ensuring no impact. In this post, we analyze these attacks, as well
On October 30, 2024, cloud hosting provider OVHcloud (AS16276) suffered a brief but significant outage. Within this post, we review Cloudflare’s perspective on this outage.
Over the past couple of weeks, Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have automatically and successfully mitigated multiple hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks exceeding 3 billion packets per second (Bpps). Our systems also automatically mitigated multiple attacks exceeding 3 terabits per second (Tbps), with the largest ones exceeding 3.65 Tbps. The scale of these attacks is unprecedented.
