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Tumblr breaks into top 10 US web destinations, 170M monthly visitors

Tumblr breaks into top 10 US web destinations, 170M monthly visitors
  • Posted November 27, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
  • Many are aware that Tumblr is one of the most popular blogging platforms on the Internet but now there’s some hard data to back up those claims. Web measurement outfit Quantcast claims the service is now among the top 10…

Google Maps gets real-time traffic, crowdsources Android GPS data

Google Maps gets real-time traffic, crowdsources Android GPS data
  • Posted March 30, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Mobile Computing
  • Although traffic data has been available on Google Maps for quite some time, the traffic information delivered by the popular mapping service was frequently stale or incorrect. In fact, estimated arrival times with traffic were so frequently incorrect, Google actually…

Study: 51% of Internet traffic is from bots, 31% is harmful

Study: 51% of Internet traffic is from bots, 31% is harmful
  • Posted March 16, 2012, 8:00 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
  • According to research by Incapsula, approximately half of all Web traffic stems from automated sources. The outfit determined that humans only represent about 49% of traffic, while the remaining chunk is derived from bots. Of that bot-related traffic, 20% stems…

Google+ earns 49 million visits in December, up 55 percent from November

Google+ earns 49 million visits in December, up 55 percent from November
  • Posted January 3, 2012, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • Unofficial estimates indicate that Google+ experienced its best traffic month ever in December 2011. The site garnered more than 49 million visitors in the US, according to web analytics firm Experian Hitwise in a recent Tweet.

Netflix represents 32.7% of North America's peak Web traffic

Netflix represents 32.7% of North America
  • Posted October 28, 2011, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Despite losing 800,000 members, Netflix still accounts for a whopping 32.7% of all North American peak fixed access downstream traffic, according to Sandvine's fall 2011 Global Internet Phenomena Report. That's up nearly 10% since spring 2011 and almost double the…

Cisco: Web traffic to quadruple by 2015, filesharing cut in half

Cisco: Web traffic to quadruple by 2015, filesharing cut in half
  • Posted June 1, 2011, 5:59 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Cisco has released its fifth annual Visual Network Index Forecast, predicting a rapid growth in Internet traffic and connected devices in the coming years. By 2015, the company believes global Web traffic will quadruple, reaching 966 exabytes per year. Cisco…

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