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October 01, 2024 12:32 AM

###### Impact of Verizon’s September 30 outage on Internet traffic

On Monday, September 30, customers on Verizon’s mobile network in multiple cities across the United States reported experiencing a loss of connectivity. HTTP request traffic data from Verizon’s mobile ASN (AS6167) showed nominal declines across impacted cities.
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September 27, 2024 1:00 PM

###### Network trends and natural language: Cloudflare Radar’s new Data Explorer & AI Assistant

The Cloudflare Radar Data Explorer provides a simple Web-based interface to build more complex API queries, including comparisons and filters, and visualize the results. The accompanying AI Assistant translates a user’s natural language statements or questions into the appropriat...

September 23, 2024 1:00 PM

###### Network performance update: Birthday Week 2024

Since June 2021, we’ve been measuring and ranking our network performance against the top global networks in the world. We use this data to improve our performance, and to share the results of those initiatives.
In this post, we’re going to share with you how network performanc...

September 11, 2024 4:00 PM

###### How the Harris-Trump US presidential debate influenced Internet traffic

See how the first 2024 US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump influenced Internet traffic patterns compared to the Biden-Trump debate. We also review email trends and observed attack activity....

September 05, 2024 7:00 AM

###### A global assessment of third-party connection tampering

Cloudflare brings visibility to the practice of connection tampering as observed from our global network....

September 05, 2024 7:00 AM

###### Bringing insights into TCP resets and timeouts to Cloudflare Radar

New TCP resets and timeouts dataset on Cloudflare Radar surfaces connection tampering, scanning, DoS attacks, and more....

August 23, 2024 2:52 PM

###### Exploring Internet and security trends during the 2024 U.S. Democratic National Convention

This analysis highlights the 2024 Democratic National Convention’s impact on Internet traffic and security, with spikes in interest for sites related to Kamala Harris and the Democrats, as well as news sites, plus pre-convention attacks on political organizations....

August 14, 2024 1:00 PM

###### Paris 2024 Olympics recap: Internet trends, cyber threats, and popular moments

As the Paris 2024 Olympics ended, our analysis shows the event’s impact on the Internet in France and other countries at different moments, its effect on specific web properties, and a spike in cyber threats and emails related to Simone Biles and others....

August 13, 2024 2:00 PM

###### Introducing HTTP request traffic insights on Cloudflare Radar

The traffic graphs on Cloudflare Radar have been enhanced to include HTTP request traffic. This new metric complements the existing bytes-based “HTTP traffic” view, and the new graphs can be found on Radar’s Overview and Traffic pages....

August 01, 2024 3:21 PM

###### A recent spate of Internet disruptions

Cloudflare Radar is constantly monitoring the Internet for widespread disruptions. Here we examine several recent noteworthy disruptions detected in the first month of Q3, including traffic anomalies observed in Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan, and Venezuela....

July 30, 2024 8:46 PM

###### How the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics has impacted Internet traffic

This blog post explores the impact of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics on Internet traffic in France and beyond, concentrating on web activity during the opening ceremony and the initial days of competition. Let the games continue....

July 22, 2024 2:41 PM

###### Countdown to Paris 2024 Olympics: France leads in web interest

As the Paris 2024 Olympics approach, our analysis reveals France, the host nation, leads in DNS traffic to official Olympic sites, followed by the UK, the US, and Australia...

July 19, 2024 3:07 PM

###### Exploring Internet traffic during the 2024 U.S. Republican National Convention

This week, the Republican National Convention was hosted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from July 15 to 18, 2024. We examined traffic shifts and cyberattacks since June 2024 to see how these events have impacted the Internet...

July 16, 2024 1:00 PM

###### Q2 2024 Internet disruption summary

Government directed shutdowns and cable cuts were both significant sources of Internet outages in Q2 2024. This post explores these disruptions, as well as others caused by power outages, maintenance, technical problems, military action, and unknown causes...

July 11, 2024 4:41 PM

###### Euro 2024’s impact on Internet traffic: a closer look at finalists Spain and England

Here we examine how UEFA Euro 2024 football matches have influenced Internet traffic patterns in participating countries, with a special focus on the two finalists, Spain and England, on their journey to the final...