July 05, 2022 1:26 PM
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...
July 04, 2022 12:55 PM
Here’s a short list of recent technical blog posts to give you something to read today...
June 14, 2022 12:55 PM
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...
June 10, 2022 10:01 AM
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...
June 09, 2022 1:41 PM
The UK's Internet traffic was clearly impacted with less traffic than usual during this weekend's celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. We also show impact from Canada to New Zealand and the royals and news websites...
May 19, 2022 1:30 PM
The 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin, Italy, had two semi-finals (May 10 and 12) and a final (May 14), all of them with highlights, including Ukraine’s victory...
May 16, 2022 1:44 PM
What happens to the Internet traffic in countries where many observe Ramadan? Depending on the country, there are clear shifts and changing patterns in Internet use, particularly before dawn and after sunset...
May 10, 2022 6:02 PM
This year, for the 66th edition, we have a dedicated page for Eurovision fans, journalists or anyone interested in following Internet trends related to the event taking place in Turin, Italy. ...
May 04, 2022 6:12 PM
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...
April 26, 2022 6:17 PM
We blogged previously about some trends concerning the first round of the 2022 French presidential election, held on April 10. Here we take a look at the run-off election this Sunday, April 24, that ended up re-electing Emmanuel Macron as President of France...
April 20, 2022 2:03 PM
How tax related websites were impacted by the Tax Day 2022 (the April 18 deadline to fill federal and state taxes)? With the highest growth in April...
April 12, 2022 1:12 PM
Welcome to our first DDoS report of 2022, and the ninth in total so far. This report includes new data points and insights both in the application-layer and network-layer sections — as observed across the global Cloudflare network between January and March 2022...
April 11, 2022 5:30 PM
What happens to the Internet trends in France when an election like the 2022 French presidential happens? Here are some answers....
April 04, 2022 3:36 PM
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...
March 29, 2022 12:37 PM
How the Internet was impacted by the Oscars 2022 moments, including the Will Smith incident...
March 24, 2022 1:32 PM
Autonomous Systems (ASes) are a group of routable IP prefixes belonging to a single entity or organization, and is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet...
March 21, 2022 12:59 PM
In this post, we share some of the insights we’ve gathered from the 32 million HTTP requests/second that pass through our network...
March 09, 2022 10:11 AM
DNSSEC issues with the .fj ccTLD caused problems reaching websites on the island nation...
March 04, 2022 4:10 PM
Cloudflare operates in more than 250 cities worldwide where we connect our equipment to the Internet to provide our broad range of services...
