Neowin News Feed for: Traffic

Cloudflare Waiting Room will help sites deal with demand

Paul Hill — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:08:02 +0000

The anti-DDoS firm, Cloudflare, has launched a new tool called Waiting Room. The feature can be used to help websites protect against a deluge of traffic by forcing people to wait in a queue. Read more...

Safety board probes truck collision with self-driving shuttle in Las Vegas

Paul Hill — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:14:01 +0000

The US National Transportation Safety Board has gone to Las Vegas in order to investigate the recent traffic incident involving a self-driving shuttle bus and a lorry doing an illegal manoeuvre. Read more...

Google Maps can now tell if a location has on-site parking, may offer more in future

Vishal Laul — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 23:34:01 +0000

The latest beta update for Google Maps on Android provides more details about parking availability, including whether or not a location has on-site parking, and if that parking is paid or free. Read more...

Report shows DDoS attacks have increased by 71% in a year, hitting new records

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:42:01 +0000

The latest "State of the Internet" report from Akamai shows the growth in number and scope of DDoS attacks around the world. In just three months, there were 19 attacks with over 100Gbps of data. Read more...

Researchers are teaching cars how to 'listen' for wet roads

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 11:42:01 +0000

Researchers have banded together and developed a system that allows cars to know how wet a road is just by listening to the sound of the tires. This could save thousands of lives in the near future. Read more...

NeoBytes :) Pornhub sees 10% traffic drop after gamers get Fallout 4

Matt Brown — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 01:36:01 +0000

Adult entertainment website 'Pornhub' has reported that site traffic from gaming fans dropped 10% below average following the release of the highly anticipated video game Fallout 4. Read more...

Google's self-driving car gets pulled over for "driving too slowly"

Usama Jawad — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:34:01 +0000

A police officer in Mountain View, California, pulled over Google's prototype self-driving car for "driving too slowly" in a relatively speedier traffic zone. Read more...

Reddit had a big year in 2014, stats show 71 billion page views and counting

Adrian Potoroaca — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 16:58:01 +0000

Reddit has chosen to offer some of its stats from 2014, showing that they are a step closer to becoming the "front page of the internet," with a nice infographic for your pleasure. Read more...

External traffic falls, internal traffic rises as Google News withdraws from Spain

Usama Jawad — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:08:01 +0000

With Google News now shut down in Spain, publishers in the country are experiencing a sharp decline in their sites' external traffic. However, the internal traffic has surprisingly increased. Read more...

Traffic to The Pirate Bay has doubled since ISPs started blocking it

Andy Weir — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:30:47 +0000

Leading file sharing site The Pirate Bay says that traffic to its site has doubled since internet service providers began blocking access to it, with a third of its traffic still coming from the US. Read more...

British nationals' web activity snooped on by government, even outside of UK

Jett Goldsmith — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:12:30 +0000

In a recently-released series of documents, the British government apparently asserted their right to snoop on the web traffic of British nationals - even if the website is hosted outside of the UK. Read more...

Google adds Waze traffic reporting to Google Maps; no sign of Windows Phone version

Steven Parker — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:56:48 +0000

Google acquired the crowd sourcing Waze traffic reporting app back in June for a cool $966 million and has started to roll it out to Google Maps; but there's no sign of the Windows Phone version. Read more...

Surface makes a small blip on the web traffic radar

Brad Sams — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:42:14 +0000

A new report out from Chitika indicates that the Surface is only making a small blip on the web traffic radar and accounts for .13% of total traffic while the iPad took 88% of the market. Read more...

Internet traffic to reach zettabyte by 2015

Paul Ferson — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:40:01 +0000

We know the future of the internet is only going to see more development, but it can be hard to really comprehend it. We take a look at what a zettabyte is and where the internet could go, given time. Read more...

Amazon now powers 1% of North American internet

Stefano Elia — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:43:13 +0000

Amazon's cloud service is now said to power 1% of all internet traffic in North America, with a third of all users visiting an Amazon cloud site at least once a day. Read more...

Facebook hits 1 trillion page views milestone

Tom Dwyer — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:54:23 +0000

Facebook has managed to hit another large milestone - 1,000,000,000,000 page views. Next up, 2 trillion! Read more...

Google gets record 1 billion hits in a month, Facebook hits 750m users

Owen Williams — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:44:00 +0000

Last month, Google broke the record for the most visited site in the space of a month, with them smashing their previous record, 931 million, and breaking into new territory; 1 billion hits. On top... Read more...

Apple patent reveals dynamic location and traffic aware iOS calendar events

Denis Wong — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:07:24 +0000

Apple has been on the receiving end of criticism lately over its handling of location data. But Apple appears to be pushing ahead with new creative ways to use its own location database and crowd-sourced... Read more...

AT&T To introduce traffic limits

Piers Hausjell — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:44:59 +0000

According to DSLReports, AT&T, the popular American communications network, will introduce traffic restrictions to all of its DSL customers on May 2, including those on the company's U-Verse package. Standard users will receive an allowance... Read more...

Reddit surpasses 1 Billion page views in January

Steven Parker — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:29:11 +0000

According to an official blog posting on Reddit, the site has broken the 1 billion page views barrier, a feat limited to only an exclusive club of around 100 websites. The exact number (as shown... Read more...

Bing overtakes Yahoo! for the first time

Tzvi Friedman — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:40:54 +0000

Microsoft’s Bing search engine claimed victory over the wizened and reliable stalwart Yahoo!, according to a Nielsen report released Tuesday. While Google still retains the top spot, and continues to dominate the competition with 65.1%... Read more...

Blogger adds Stats; what does it mean for Google Analytics?

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:52:50 +0000

Blogger, the popular free blogging platform, just launched a new feature called Blogger Stats, according to TechCrunch. It gives a pseudo-real time overview of page visits, article popularity, and traffic source statistics, and it's available... Read more...

Facebook surpasses Google as the most visited website in the U.S.

Brad Sams — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:53:53 +0000

Facebook has surpassed Google as the most visited site on the Internet for the week March 13th in the United States. This important milestone for Facebook shows that social connection and social media are... Read more...

Twitter use declines further

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:33:09 +0000

After a huge rush of success at its birth, the social networking website Twitter is seeing substantially less tweets as time goes on for US users. According to an article at eMarketer following spectacular initial... Read more...

Twitter traffic up 974%

Andrew Fairbairn — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:13:25 +0000

The micro-blogging service Twitter was one of the fastest growing websites last year with an increase in traffic of nearly 1000%, Hitwise UK reports. It has stormed up the rankings of the most visited websites... Read more...

Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic

Brad Sams — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:15:09 +0000

Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic... Read more...

iPhone Spurs Mobile Web Traffic

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:51:20 +0000

Although the main focus of this year's MacWorld was the MacBook Air, last year's much touted, much hyped iPhone still managed to make waves. In data provided to the New York Times, Google disclosed that... Read more...

XM and Hyundai offer a Real-Time Traffic Service

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:19:08 +0000

XM, the leading provider of satellite radio in the United States (8.5+ million subscribers), has negotiated a deal with Hyundai. Genesis, Hyundai’s new, rear-wheel drive premium sports sedan, will be the first Hyundai brand vehicle... Read more...

Web Traffic Snarls Sites on Black Friday

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:19:59 +0000

A surge of e-commerce traffic on Thanksgiving night and all day Friday apparently caught several retail giants by surprise, with Lowe's, Macy's and Victoria's Secret especially hard hit. But they were far from the exception,... Read more...

More ISP Confess: We Throttle P2P Traffic

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:11:11 +0000

Adding itself to the small-but-growing list of ISPs that admit to traffic shaping, Canada-based Bell Simpatico has confessed to using "traffic management" on heavy users "during peak hours." "We are now using a Internet Traffic... Read more...

Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:23:20 +0000

Afraid of excessive bandwidth usage, ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for almost two years now. While most ISPs simply limit the available bandwidth for BitTorrent, Comcast has now taken it one step further, and... Read more...

Gas price Web sites see skyrocketing traffic

Sat, 26 May 2007 17:18:45 +0000

As gasoline prices rise, sites tracking fuel prices in hundreds of cities receive millions of visitors throughout the year. Naturally, at times the prices go down, the number of visitors drop as well. These sites... Read more...

Windows weakness can lead to network traffic hijacks

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:56:07 +0000

At the ShmooCon hacker conference, researchers with security firm IOActive claimed a design bug in the system used by Windows PCs to obtain proxy settings could let attackers hijack traffic. Internet Explorer on Windows PCs... Read more...

Sony PlayStation Web Traffic Down; Nintendo Wii Soars

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:15:27 +0000

According to a Tuesday Nielsen/NetRatings report, traffic to the PlayStation Web site fell in February, while rivals Microsoft Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii posted double-digit growth. Compared to last year's February, visits to Playstation.com fell... Read more...

Google Maps adds real-time traffic data

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:36:35 +0000

Google has added real-time traffic data for major highways in more than 30 American cities to Google Maps. The data is color-coded to signify traffic conditions: green means no congestion; yellow minor holdups; and red... Read more...

Two charged with hacking LA traffic lights

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:00:10 +0000

Two men have been charged with illegal computer access after they allegedly hacked into the Los Angeles city traffic center to turn off traffic lights at four intersections last August. The two men, both engineers... Read more...

Cell Phones to Report Real Time Traffic Information

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:36:38 +0000

There are two companies who say they have a system that can monitor traffic on roads and highways. They say their systems are based on tracking the signals of cellphones that are inside cars while... Read more...

Level 3, Cogent Agree on Traffic Deal

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:57:48 +0000

Avoiding Congressional intervention, Level 3 and Cogent announced on Friday that they have reached an agreement that will keep internet traffic flowing smoothly between their customers. Earlier this month Level 3 disrupted service to Cogent... Read more...

Yahoo Maps Offer Live U.S. Traffic Conditions

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:43:43 +0000

Yahoo Inc. is set to offer an online service that lets users view live U.S. local traffic conditions on custom-created maps, the first site to do so nationally, the company said late on Wednesday. In... Read more...

Christmas draws record Internet traffic

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:38:51 +0000

It seems that bits and bytes are replacing Bedknobs and Broomsticks, with Britons flocking online in record numbers on Christmas day. Britons went online in unprecedented numbers this Christmas, with Internet traffic 50 percent up... Read more...