GIGAZINE access analysis results for August 2023



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

◆June 2023
Number of access requests: 266.08 million
Page views: 49.59 million (1.52 million increase)
Number of unique users: 21.59 million (1.74 million increase)
Transfer amount: 19.470TB
*Measurement results by Cloudflare.

Of the amount transferred, the amount of multimedia files such as images was approximately 15.498TB. Approximately 3.972TB of HTML, RSS, etc.

Additionally, the number of articles created in August 2023 was 629.

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

1st place: Designer of bridge that collapsed just hours after opening was suspended for 18 months



2nd place: It turns out that heating a plastic food container in a microwave releases a huge number of plastic particles



3rd place: 5 reasons why Google Maps has become difficult to use



4th place: Research results show that paper and bamboo straws contain more 'eternal chemicals' than plastic straws



5th place: Research results supporting the existence of the dream room-temperature, normal-pressure superconductor 'LK-99' are announced one after another, and a video suggesting that the reproduced LK-99 is a superconducting material is also released.



6th place: Supermarket closed after poisonous spider that causes 'endless erection' found in banana bag



7th place: Scientifically clarified the mystery of ``Why do cats born in the desert 10,000 years ago prefer tuna?''



8th place: A team from Tonan University announced that it observed 'zero resistance' at minus 163 degrees in an experiment to reproduce the normal temperature and pressure superconductor 'LK-99'



9th place: Communication with Voyager 2, which is 19.9 billion km away from Earth, is cut off due to a NASA mistake.



10th place: The Indian government suddenly announces that 'a license is required to import PCs,' but Apple and Samsung immediately stop imports and enforcement is postponed for three months.



Next, the top 10 least popular articles in August. This is also an analysis result from Google Analytics.

1st place: Atlassian of Trello, Confluence, and Jira announces results for the fourth quarter of 2023, sales are strong at approximately 134 billion yen, an increase of 24% compared to the same period last year



2nd place: Meta is planning to implement 'Lincoln role-playing AI' and 'surfer AI that proposes travel plans' on SNS in September 2023.



3rd place: An attempt to use AI to derive information useful for preventing the recurrence of new coronavirus infections



4th place: A bill to limit children's smartphone usage time to a maximum of 2 hours a day is under consideration in China



5th place: The UK Electoral Commission apologizes for a cyberattack that involved accessing the personal information of 40 million voters.



6th place: I tried Starbucks' chilled cup ``Salty Vanilla with Coffee Jelly'', which has a gorgeous vanilla scent and a smooth coffee jelly texture that makes it feel summery and refreshing.



7th place: FDA approves oral medication to treat 'postpartum depression' where symptoms of depression develop after childbirth



8th place: UFC, NBA, and NFL request DMCA rule changes to allow for immediate deletion of pirated live streams



9th place: YouTube reveals that it is experimenting with 'a function that automatically summarizes video content using AI'



10th place: It has been pointed out that Instagram receives advertising fees from users who promote illegal content and allows them to promote it.



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

First place:
A movie that claims to have 'confirmed magnetic levitation of a superconductor at room temperature and normal pressure' [LK-99] - YouTube


2nd place:
A movie that automatically animates live-action footage using image generation AI 'Stable Diffusion' and multi ControlNet - YouTube


3rd place:
Watching fireworks through a blindfold fence at '2023 Lake Biwa Fireworks Festival' - YouTube


4th:
Movie ``MEG The Monsters 2'' main story sea ride video in which Jason Statham challenges a group of MEG on a personal watercraft - YouTube


5th place:
Start Yamazen's compact cooler 'YEC-RD03', the sound and wind force are like this - YouTube


6th place:
Thermos' iced coffee maker 'ECI-661' makes cold iced coffee in just 5 minutes with the push of a button - YouTube


7th place:
Coperni's performance of ``creating a dress just by spraying on a naked woman'' - YouTube


8th place:
Watching fireworks at the boundary of the blindfold fence installed at the '2023 Lake Biwa Fireworks Festival' - YouTube


9th place:
Shooting near Ebisu Bridge at night with 'Osmo Action 4' - YouTube


10th:
'CoDeF' demo video part 2 - YouTube


So, next time, in order to find out the trends of GIGAZINE readers, we will look at the following depending on the browser used.

1st place: Chrome : 50.27% (5.48% increase)
2nd place: Safari : 34.09% (4.94% decrease)
3rd place: Safari (in-app) : 5.95% (0.72% decrease)
4th place: Edge : 4.07% (0.62% decrease)
5th place: Android Webview : 2.85% (0.09% decrease)
6th place: Firefox : 2.29% (0.77% increase)
7th place: Samsung Internet : 0.43% (0.06% decrease)
8th place: Opera : 0.21% (0.05% decrease)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.10% (0.09% decrease)
10th place: Internet Explorer : 0.02% (0.02% 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: X (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: livedoor news (8th place last month)
8th place: Pinterest (9th place last month)
9th place: Togetter (7th place last month)
10th place: YouTube (10th place last month)

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

1st place: gigazine
2nd place: lk-99
3rd place: iphone15
4th place: Tobita Shinchi
5th place: Normal temperature and pressure superconductivity
6th place: Demon Core
7th place: Runtime system
8th place: Super spicy dodecamine
9th place: Lake Biwa Fireworks Festival
10th place: vanmoof

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