GIGAZINE access analysis results for December 2023

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◆December 2023
Number of access requests: 204.76 million
Page views: 42.52 million (2.1 million increase)
Number of unique users: 17.61 million (1.05 million increase)
Transfer amount: 16.237TB
*Measurement results by Cloudflare.

Of the amount transferred, the amount of multimedia files such as images was approximately 13.140TB. Approximately 3.097TB of HTML, RSS, etc.

In addition, the number of articles created in December 2023 was 598.

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

1st place: A report that when I bought a cheap power supply unit for my own PC online, it was a poor quality product with iron and earth lumps inside.

2nd place: What is the surprising mechanism revealed by slow-motion shooting of the cathode ray tube screen of the ray gun game 'Duck Hunt' released by Nintendo in the 1980s?

3rd place: List of new anime starting in winter 2024

4th place: The history of titanium, a metal that exists in abundance but has not been utilized by humans for a long time

5th place: I really wanted to pass through a section where traffic restrictions were imposed during certain hours, so I gathered all the necessary documents and completed the procedure for 'application for permission to travel on a prohibited road' so that I could pass through.

6th place: PlayStation removes 1,300 purchased digital contents from users' digital libraries

7th place: Regulators are finally investigating how to cancel Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions, because they are imposing too messed up rules on users

8th place: 'Top 100 most beautiful faces in the world (2023 edition)' complete image summary

9th place: Report that there was a 'button to reset the Internet' on the plane

10th place: Succeeded in building a computer using cultured human brain tissue, also compatible with Japanese speech recognition

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

1st place: Major daily newspaper New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

2nd place: OpenAI and Microsoft partnership comes under scrutiny by UK antitrust authorities, US also begins unofficial investigation

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3rd place: Guidelines showing how judicial institutions should use AI have appeared

4th place: Meta announces AI safety tool “Purple Llama”, providing tools and evaluation system to improve safety of open generative AI models

5th place: As traditional insurance companies avoid new contracts due to climate change, emerging insurance companies using 'AI' are expanding their influence

6th place: Apple was revealed to have discussed multi-year contracts worth more than $50 million with various media outlets to train AI generated on news articles.

7th place: A study that analyzed 57 million comments found that harmful comments on Wikipedia lead to a decrease in the activity frequency of Wikipedia editors

8th place: Threads starts testing ActivityPub that can be linked with Mastodon etc.

9th place: Scams that use the developer community of Epic Games, famous for Fortnite, to lead to pirated sites are rampant.

10th place: We thoroughly checked the appearance of the Valentine's Day gift 'Black Thunder Mini Bar Valentine BOX' which contains 16 pieces of Black Thunder and can be easily given.

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

First place
Christina Aguilera x Movie 'Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie' Sky Special Video - YouTube

2nd place
Movie 'Paw Patrol The Mighty Movie' Vehicle Transform & Launch - YouTube

3rd place
Coperni's performance of ``creating a dress just by spraying on a naked woman'' - YouTube

4th
A movie that automatically animates live-action footage using image generation AI 'Stable Diffusion' and multi ControlNet - YouTube

5th place
Sea Shepherd's Adi Gil sinks - YouTube

6th place
'Shinjuku Station Indoor', which reproduces the inside of Shinjuku Station in 3D, can be moved with mouse operation - YouTube

7th place
President Putin's deepfake asks President Putin himself, 'Is it true that there is a Kagemusha?' - YouTube

8th place
The battle of the deck-building roguelite 'John of the Phantom Day - NUMAZU in the MIRAGE -' looks like this - YouTube

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

10th
This is what happens when you use the plug-in 'MAIM' that reproduces the sound quality deterioration caused by MP3 compression - 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 : 49.06% (1.77% decrease)
2nd place: Safari : 31.97% (0.57% decrease)
3rd place: Safari (in-app) : 7.31% (1.54% increase)
4th place: Edge : 5.33% (0.22% increase)
5th place: Android Webview : 2.93% (0.44% increase)
6th place: Firefox : 2.91% (0.15% increase)
7th place: Samsung Internet : 0.40% (0.02% increase)
8th place: Opera : 0.27% (0.01% increase)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.08% (no change)
10th place: Internet Explorer : 0.02% (no increase or 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: Facebook (2nd place last month)
3rd place: Google News (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 (10th place last month)
8th place: livedoor news (7th place last month)
9th place: YouTube (8th place last month)
10th place: Pinterest (9th place last month)

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

1st place: gigazine
2nd place: The most beautiful face in the world 2023
3rd place: Year-end jumbo winning number 984
4th place: playstation
5th place: temu app danger
6th place: Environmental activist shot dead
7th place: youtube ad block
8th place: nudify
9th place:wii u
10th place: windows12

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