Internet traffic growth and trends

The company, whose web security services cover about 19% of the internet, said growth in internet activity accelerated from mid-August and peaked in late November. The trend continued with vehicle models. 2022 and 2023.

Bot traffic deserves special attention this year. Bots are not necessarily malicious traffic but also include bots used to index, monitor, and audit the World Wide Web.

Interestingly, the United States remains the undisputed leader in bot activity, generating 34.6% of all global bot traffic. By comparison, Germany ranks second with 6.8%, followed by Iran, China and Singapore. Among the largest sources of bot traffic are Amazon Web Services (12.7%) and Google (7.8%), with Googlebot being particularly active.

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Mobile traffic and browsing

Mobile devices will account for 41.3% of all Internet traffic in 2024, consistent with last year's figures. The main platforms are Android and iOS, with Android dominating with 2/3 of the traffic. However, the distribution varies by region: in the US and Northern Europe, iOS dominates, while in Asia, Africa and South America, Android leads.

Among browsers, Google Chrome still leads with a market share of 65.8%, followed by Apple Safari with 15.5%. Microsoft Edge accounts for 6.9% and Mozilla Firefox accounts for 4%.

Search engine

Google retains 88% of all search traffic processed by Cloudflare. Following, Yandex and Baidu received 3.1% and 2.7% respectively, while Bing only took 2.6%.

Network anomalies and security

Cloudflare reports a decline in the share of traffic over IPv6: in 2024, the figure is 28.5% compared to 33.75% a year earlier. It is also known that 20.7% of TCP connections are unexpectedly interrupted before useful data is exchanged, which can be caused by DoS attacks and network anomalies.

The company also noted the data collection of artificial intelligence-related bots to train models. For example, ByteDance's Bytespider shows a decrease in activity throughout the year, while Anthropic's ClaudeBot periodically increases activity.

Fast internet and security measures

Spain tops the rankings for average download speeds (292.6 Mbps) and upload speeds (192.6 Mbps), with all of the top 10 countries having download speeds exceeding 200 Mbps.

Based on the data, the main Internet companies and the overall pattern remain unchanged in 2024: Google dominates, the US generates the most bot traffic, and the global Internet continues to grow strongly.