The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review said global Internet traffic grew 17.2 percent in 2024.
Google is the most popular Internet service.
OpenAI is at the top of the Generative AI category.
Binance is at the top of the Cryptocurrency category.
WhatsApp is the top Messaging platform.
Facebook is the top Social Media site.
Global traffic from Starlink grew 3.3x in 2024.
Googlebot, Google’s web crawler, was responsible for the highest volume of request traffic to Cloudflare in 2024.
Traffic from ByteDance’s AI crawler (Bytespider) declined in 2024. Anthropic’s AI crawler (ClaudeBot) first started showing signs of ongoing crawling activity in April, then declined after an initial peak in May & June.
13.0 percent of TLS 1.3 traffic is using post-quantum encryption.
Nearly one-third of mobile device traffic was from Apple iOS devices.
Android had a >90 percent share of mobile device traffic in 29 countries/regions; peak iOS mobile device traffic share was over 60 percent in eight countries/regions.
Globally, nearly half of web requests used HTTP/2, with 20.5 percent using HTTP/3. Usage of both versions was up slightly from 2023.
React, PHP, and jQuery were among the most popular technologies used to build websites, while HubSpot, Google, and WordPress were among the most popular vendors of supporting services and platforms.
Google is the most popular search engine globally, across all platforms. On mobile devices and operating systems, Baidu is a distant second. Bing is a distant second across desktop and Windows devices, with DuckDuckGo second most popular on macOS.
Google Chrome is the most popular browser. While this is also true on macOS devices, Safari usage is well ahead of Chrome on iOS devices. On Windows, Edge is the second most popular browser as it comes preinstalled and is the initial default.
225 major Internet disruptions were observed globally in 2024, with many due to government-directed regional and national shutdowns of Internet connectivity. Cable cuts and power outages were also leading causes.
The top 10 countries ranked by Internet speed all had average download speeds above 200 Mbps. Spain was consistently among the top locations across the measured Internet quality metrics.
41.3 percent of global traffic comes from mobile devices. In nearly 100 countries/regions, the majority of traffic comes from mobile devices.
20.7 percent of TCP connections are unexpectedly terminated before any useful data can be exchanged.
