Cloudflare Radar's 2024 Internet Year in Review

Cloudflare Radar's 2024 Internet Year in Review

#ThisWeekinNET — Episode 82

02:30 What is Cloudflare Radar and Year in Review

05:00 Changes in Year in Review over the years, since 2020 and the pandemic and 2024

07:16 The 2024 Year in Review microsite and how does it work

10:45 Popular Internet services

12:20 Starlink traffic trends

13:50 IPv4 traffic distribution

15:48 AI bot & crawler traffic

18:14 AI Audit — how content creators can protect their content from AI crawlers

19:09 Post-quantum encryption

22:35 iOS vs Android

24:22 HTTP versions & Website technologies & API client language popularity

26:50 Search engine market share & browser market share

28:49 Internet outages

31:33 Internet quality (Spain ahead) & TCP connection anomalies

33:28 Mitigated traffic (attacks)

35:00 Most targeted industries (attacks) & vulnerabilities

36:41 Routing security (and RPKI) & email threats

40:20 Our detailed blog posts full of trends

43:28 What to expect from Radar (and Year in Review) in 2025

Explore the worldwide trends that shaped the Internet with Cloudflare Radar’s 2024 Internet Year in Review. Join Host João Tomé and Cloudflare Head of Data Insights, David Belson as they look at Internet trends and patterns across 2024.

We also discuss Robotcop and how content creators can prevent bots and crawlers from scraping their sites using a button in the AI Audit section of the Cloudflare dashboard.

Dive into the data yourself at the Cloudflare Radar Year in Review microsite
https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2024