GIGAZINE access analysis results for May 2023



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So, below are various data that can be used as a reference when advertising on GIGAZINE .

◆May 2023
Number of access requests: 247.71 million
Page views: 45.33 million (1.88 million increase)
Number of unique users: 19.46 million (1.58 million increase)
Transfer amount: 17.273TB

*Measurement results by Cloudflare.

Of the amount transferred, the amount of multimedia files such as images was approximately 13.553TB. Approximately 3.720TB of HTML, RSS, etc.

In addition, the number of articles created in May 2023 was 609.

Next, the top 10 most popular articles in May 2023. This is the analysis result from Google Analytics.

1st place: The reason for the mysterious phenomenon that 'the PC screen becomes completely black when sitting on an IKEA chair' has been revealed



2nd Place: Disney's Star Wars Hotel, which costs 800,000 yen for two nights, will close one year after opening



3rd place:Badminton's new technique 'spin serve' is so strong that it is temporarily banned from use in international tournaments, what kind of magic ball is it?



4th place: Millions of Android smartphones and Android TVs were found to have pre-installed malware



5th place: When I asked ChatGPT about the assignment submitted by students, 'Was it written by AI?', the answer was 'Written by AI', so more than half of the students were in danger of failing the grade.



6th place: The EU warns Apple that it is trying to establish its own USB-C standard, ``If you do that, we will not allow iPhone sales in the EU.''



7th place: How to drastically reduce the amount of communication with the ad blocker '280blocker' finally available on Android



8th place: Government officials drain precious water from reservoirs to recover dropped smartphones



9th place: Netflix starts sending emails to crack down on account sharing, telling people not to share their passwords with others, and an additional fee of over 1,000 yen per month is required to share with people other than family members.



10th place: The movie 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' has been uploaded to Twitter in its entirety



Next, the worst 10 articles that were not popular in May. This is also the analysis result by Google Analytics.

1st place: New York City enacts an AI regulation law that requires companies that use AI in recruitment activities to 'notify and explain the use of AI'



2nd place: Google changes the responsiveness index of the user experience index 'Core Web Vitals' to 2024



3rd place: Microsoft distributes correction files for the problem that cameras such as Surface Pro X have stopped working



4th place: TikToker filed a lawsuit over Montana's 'TikTok prohibition law'



5th place: Twitter introduced 'a system where media can sell paid articles one by one' from May



6th place: Microsoft announces that it will introduce a feature to the Microsoft Store that uses AI to generate app review summaries and ``AI Hub'' that highlights apps that use AI.



7th place: It turns out that Twitter has acquired the job matching service 'Laskie', the first transaction in the Elon Musk era



8th place: ChatGPT recovers from blocking measures in Italy, clarifies training data collection and usage methods, adds personal information deletion form, etc.



9th place: It is reported that Google has approved an artificial intelligence plan to adopt high-performance AI 'PaLM 2' for YouTube creators and advertisers



10th place: TikTok is testing its own chat AI 'Tako' with some users, it looks like this



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Next, the top 10 YouTube views in May 2023 are as follows.

First place
A movie that automatically animates live-action footage using image generation AI 'Stable Diffusion' and multi ControlNet - YouTube

2nd place
Comparison video of the movie 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' special Japanese version and subtitled version - YouTube

3rd place
I read aloud while converting to Tsukuyomi's voice with real-time voice changer 'Koemake RVC Player' - YouTube

4th
Movie 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' Princess Peach's Training Course Scene [Main Video]-YouTube

5th place
Coperni's performance of ``creating a dress just by spraying on a naked woman'' - YouTube

6th place
Police officer warns self-driving car - YouTube

7th place
The AI function 'Generative Fill' installed in Photoshop looks like this - YouTube

8th place
Movie 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' Bowser's singing [main video] - YouTube

9th place
Creepy face piggy bank 'FACE BANK' operation movie - YouTube

10th
'ChatVRM' that allows you to talk with 3D characters on your browser - YouTube


So, next time, in order to explore the trends of GIGAZINE readers, it looks like the following by looking at each browser you are using.

1st place: Chrome : 49.95% (3.98% increase)
2nd place: Safari : 36.54% (2.01% decrease)
3rd place: Safari (in-app) : 4.61% (0.63% decrease)
4th place: Edge : 4.13% (0.65% decrease)
5th place: Android Webview : 2.13% (0.31% decrease)
6th place: Firefox : 1.59% (0.22% decrease)
7th place: Samsung Internet : 0.45% (0.02% decrease)
8th place: Opera : 0.25% (0.04% decrease)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.18% (0.09% decrease)
10th place: Amazon Silk : 0.08% (0.02% decrease)
11th place: Internet Explorer : 0.03% (0.01% decrease)

Looking at IE's breakdown in more detail, it looks like this:

1st place: 11.0 : 93.91% (1.58% decrease)
2nd place: 8.0 : 3.07% (out of range)
3rd place: 10.0 : 1.69% (0.05% decrease)

Next are the sites that link to GIGAZINE that have a large inflow to GIGAZINE, and the top 10 are as follows. Search engines are excluded.

1st place: Twitter (1st place last month)
2nd place: Google News (2nd place last month)
3rd place: Facebook (3rd place last month)
4th place: Hatena Bookmark (4th place last month)
5th place: SmartNews (5th place last month)
6th place: World stock prices (6th place last month)
7th place: Togetter (out of range last month)
8th place: livedoor news (7th place last month)
9th place: Pinterest (8th place last month)
10th place: YouTube (9th place last month)

Next, the top 10 phrases that came to GIGAZINE in the search are as follows.

1st place: youtube
2nd place: gigazine
3rd place: sex
4th place: Video mechanism
5th place: bing ai
6th place: Pour hot water into the pot steam
7th place:pornhub
8th place: stable diffusion
9th place: Splatoon 3
10th place: Tobita Shinchi

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