GIGAZINE access analysis results for January 2024

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Announcement 1: The second half of episode 6 of the free full-color manga 'Secret Palace Garden,' currently being serialized on GIGAZINE, has been released.

[Free Manga] Secret Miyazono Episode 6 (Part 2) 'Approach' What fate awaits the AI girl filled with love and sadness? - GIGAZINE

Announcement 2: GIGAZINE articles have been released as e-books on Amazon's Kindle store. The following article ranks the most read articles published in December 2023, so if you're curious about what kind of articles are read in e-book format, please read it.

The top 10 best-selling GIGAZINE articles on Amazon in January 2024 are here! - GIGAZINE

So, below are some useful data to help you advertise on GIGAZINE .

January 2024
Number of access requests: 196.68 million
Page views: 43.11 million (an increase of 590,000)
Number of unique users: 18.15 million (an increase of 540,000)
Transfer volume: 16.186TB
*Measurements taken by Cloudflare.

Of the total transfer volume, images and other multimedia files accounted for approximately 13.473TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 2.713TB.

In addition, the number of articles created in January 2024 was 567.

Next, the top 10 most popular articles in January 2024. These are the results of an analysis using Google Analytics.

1st place: Bottled water found to contain hundreds of thousands of tiny plastic particles, some coming from water purification filters

2. Using your head, you can unlock your car from a greater distance than usual

3rd place: Apple will pay approximately 13,300 yen for each device affected due to the 'problem of intentionally slowing down the performance of older iPhones'

4. Internal documents reveal that chemical manufacturer 3M covered up the dangers of 'forever chemicals' since the 1950s

5th place: How an engineer uncovers the identity of a mysterious IoT device in a new apartment

6th place: How does the world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant, Ishijima Bay Nuclear Power Plant, work?

7th: Research supports the idea that it's better to wet the beans before grinding them when making coffee

8. Microsoft discovers material that can replace 70% of lithium in batteries in just a few days, running simulations and AI models with Azure Quantum Elements

9th place: Amazon is flooded with products with the name 'Sorry, we can't fulfill your request because it violates OpenAI's usage policy'

10th place: A former Google employee who worked there for 18 years posted a long message lamenting that 'Google's culture has changed' and became a hot topic.

Next, the 10 least popular articles in January 2024. These are also the results of an analysis using Google Analytics.

1st place: Samsung announces fourth-quarter 2023 financial results, with sales down 3.8% year-on-year and operating profit down 34%, but is seen as an improvement from the third quarter

2. When searching for how to deal with a heart attack on YouTube, appropriate first aid methods will be displayed at the top of the page.

3. Twitter (formerly Twitter) signs content deal with former CNN anchor Don Lemon and two others to stream original shows on Twitter

4. Instagram and Facebook will make it impossible to send direct messages to users under the age of 16 by default, starting January 26, 2024

5. OpenAI is working on multiple projects with the US Department of Defense, including helping veterans prevent suicide.

6. Meta allows users to unlink their Facebook and Instagram accounts to comply with the Digital Markets Act

7. OpenAI removes chatbots impersonating presidential candidates

8th place: Elon Musk's AI startup 'xAI' is reportedly in negotiations to raise up to 890 billion yen

9th place: Global music streaming reaches 4 trillion times per year

10th place: Instagram and Facebook will impose restrictions on users under the age of 18, which will mean that sensitive content such as suicide or sex will be hidden even from posts by users they follow.

Next, the top 10 YouTube views in January 2024 are as follows.

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

No.2
Movie 'Paw Patrol The Mighty Movie' Vehicle Transform & Launch - YouTube

3rd place
Play the free-to-play side-scrolling action game 'Rising Up' where a businessman destroys everything - YouTube

4th
Anti-rape condom 'Rape-aXe' - YouTube

No.5
Coperni's performance 'Create a dress just by spraying a naked woman' - YouTube

No.6
I tried playing the one-dimensional Pac-Man game 'PAKU PAKU' - YouTube

7th place
A movie that automatically animates live-action footage with image generation AI 'Stable Diffusion' and multi ControlNet - YouTube

No.8
Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil sinks - YouTube

No.9
I tried playing the one-dimensional Pac-Man game 'PAKU PAKU' using a code - YouTube

10th
Before and after showing the difference that removing the flutter echo of 'Steamboat Willie' would make - YouTube


So, next we will look at the trends of GIGAZINE readers by browser they use, as follows.

1st place: Chrome : 49.35% (up 0.29%)
2. Safari : 33.16% (up 1.19%)
3. Safari (in-app) : 6.77% (down 0.54%)
4th place: Edge : 5.08% (down 0.25%)
5. Android Webview : 2.75% (down 0.18%)
6. Firefox : 2.62% (down 0.29%)
7. Samsung Internet : 0.40% (no change)
8. Opera : 0.24% (down 0.03%)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.07% (down 0.01%)
10th place: Internet Explorer : 0.02% (no change)

Next, the top 10 sites that linked to GIGAZINE and brought the most traffic to GIGAZINE 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: Global stock prices (6th place last month)
7th place: Togetter (10th last month)
8th place: livedoor news (7th place last month)
9th place: YouTube (8th last month)
10th place: Pinterest (9th last month)

Next, the top 10 phrases that led to searches on GIGAZINE are as follows.

1st place: gigazine
2nd place: Year-end Jumbo winning number 984
3. Amazon.com
4th place: The most beautiful face in the world 2023
5th place: Temu app danger
6th place: Palworld Pokemon
7th place: Mummy fake
8th place: PlayStation 5
9th place: Kizumonogatari Koyomi Vamp Difference
10th place: Apple

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