These figures are drawn from the 2023 Year in Review report from the content delivery network, which by some estimates is used for its web security services in more than 20 percent of internet traffic. The data is derived from the Cloudflare Radar service, launched in 2020, used to monitor traffic and usage trends across its own network. Cloudflare itself takes in more than 120 countries/regions, and claims to serve an average of more than 50 million HTTP/HTTPS requests per second.
That growth of 25 percent in global internet traffic is in line with last year's figure, Cloudflare says, and shows that the internet is still expanding at a fair rate as more and more devices are connected and there are more websites, applications, and services to consume. Thanks to its widely distributed footprint, Cloudflare says it can see regional trends such as a drop in traffic in Muslim countries coinciding with celebrations for the end of Ramadan, and in Mauritania, where government-directed shutdowns occurred earlier this yea