Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review

The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review provides an overview of the Internet's patterns across multiple areas over the course of 2024. Key findings include a 17.2% growth in global internet traffic, with Google maintaining its position as the most popular internet service overall. Starlink traffic grew 3.3x in 2024, and Googlebot was responsible for the highest volume of request traffic to Cloudflare's network. The majority of mobile device traffic came from Apple iOS devices globally, while Android had a >90% share in 29 countries/regions. Nearly half of web requests used HTTP/2, with 20.5% using HTTP/3. React, PHP, and jQuery were among the most popular technologies used to build websites, while Hubspot, Google, and WordPress were among the most popular vendors of supporting services and platforms. Go surpassed NodeJS as the most popular language used for making automated API requests. Google is the most popular search engine globally, with 88% market share across all platforms. Google Chrome is the most popular browser overall, followed by Safari on iOS devices and Microsoft Edge on Windows devices. The top 10 countries ranked by Internet speed all had average download speeds above 200 Mbps, with Spain consistently among the top locations across measured Internet quality metrics. Nearly 41.3% of global traffic comes from mobile devices, while 20.7% of TCP connections are unexpectedly terminated before any useful data can be exchanged. Cloudflare mitigated 6.5% of global traffic as potentially malicious or for customer-defined reasons, with the United States responsible for over a third of global bot traffic. The Gambling/Games industry was the most attacked in 2024, followed by Finance. Log4j remained an active threat and was actively targeted throughout 2024. Routing security continued to improve globally throughout 2024, with a 6.4% increase in valid IPv4 routes and a 3.2% increase in valid IPv6 routes. An average of 4.3% of emails were determined to be malicious in 2024, with deceptive links and identity deception being the two most common types of threats found in malicious email messages. Over 99% of the email messages processed by Cloudflare Email Security from the .bar, .rest, and .uno top level domains (TLDs) were found to be either spam or malicious in nature.