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....
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”...
Exam time means Internet disruptions in Syria, Sudan and Algeria
2022-06-14
As they have done over the past several years, Syria and Sudan are implementing multi-hour nationwide Internet shutdowns. Algeria has also taken a similar approach in the past, but this year appears to be implementing more targeted website/app blocking...
AAE-1 & SMW5 cable cuts impact millions of users across multiple countries
2022-06-10
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...
In Ukraine and beyond, what it takes to keep vulnerable groups online
2022-06-08
As we celebrate the eighth anniversary of Project Galileo, we want to provide a view into the type of cyber attacks experienced by organizations protected under the project...
HTTP RFCs have evolved: A Cloudflare view of HTTP usage trends
2022-06-06
HTTP/3 is now RFC 9114. We explore Cloudflare's view of how it is being used...
Tracking shifts in Internet connectivity in Kherson, Ukraine
2022-05-04
Over this past week, we observed an outage in the occupied city of Kherson, south Ukraine, coupled with an apparent shift in who controls the Internet within the region...
Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2022
2022-04-04
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...
Application security: Cloudflare’s view
2022-03-21
In this post, we share some of the insights we’ve gathered from the 32 million HTTP requests/second that pass through our network...
DNSSEC issues take Fiji domains offline
2022-03-09
DNSSEC issues with the .fj ccTLD caused problems reaching websites on the island nation...
Who won Super Bowl LVI? A look at Internet traffic during the big game
2022-02-14
By now, everyone knows that the Los Angeles Rams won, but we also want to look at which Super Bowl advertisers were the biggest winners, and how traffic to food delivery services, social media and messaging apps, and sports and betting websites changed throughout the game...
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...
