Internet traffic grew hugely in 2024, with Google taking the strain

Date:
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Description:
Internet traffic surged 17% year-over-year, with users as interested as ever in Googles entire suite of services.

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traffic rose by 17% year-over-year in 2024, Cloudflare finds Google.com and Chrome maintain significant market share ChatGPT is still the most popular AI tool

Just like Spotify Unwrapped and Apple Music Replay, Cloudflare has given us its run-down of internet traffic of 2024, showing how weve become more connected than ever.

The company's analysis claims internet traffic saw a 17% year-over-year increase driven primarily by the growing number of connected and smart devices, as well as ongoing interest in artificial intelligence.

The company also confirmed that Google Chrome accounts for as close as makes no difference two-thirds (65.73%) of the global browser market a figure that aligns with separate figures from Statcounter , which puts the browsers reach at 66.33%. 2024 internet habits

Apart from accessing its browsers , internet users across the globe are also huge fans of Google's search engine, accounting for 88.5% of all internet searches, significantly outpacing rivals like Russias Yandex (3.1%), Chinas Baidu (2.7%), Americas Bing (2.6%) and the privacy-focused DuckDuckGo (0.9%).

In its 2024 Year in Review , Cloudflare also explored the market shares of social networks. Although Meta has three of the most accessed internet services of the year Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp TikToks rise has continued. Landing itself in fourth position, behind Apple, the Chinese-owned social network spent a few days in the summer ahead of Apple, highlighting
its immense reach.

Longer-term, ChatGPTs continued rise has kept it the most widely accessed AI tool on the net. Starting 2023 in the top 200 most accessed sites overall,
its now closing in on the top 50. Cloudflare highlighted the fluctuation, which sees more users access ChatGPT on weekdays rather than weekends, demonstrating its position as a useful workplace AI tool .

Other popular sites and online services worth mentioning are Stripe, which maintained its position as the number one financial service; Tesla, which saw spikes surrounding the launch of its Cybercab robotaxi and following the US elections; and GitHub, which has upgraded its AI tools and security functions over the course of the year in a bid to attract more developers.

The Internet is everywhere, woven throughout almost all of the daily activities of modern life how we interact and connect on social media, use our smart refrigerators and vacuums, travel from one place to another through rideshare apps, connect to our banks and more," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince concluded. You might also like Weve listed the best web hosting providers
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