GIGAZINE access analysis results for March 2024

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Notice 1: After publishing the first chapter, GIGAZINE's free full-color manga ' The Part-time Life of a Hero and a Corporate Slave ' was suspended due to production reasons, but the second chapter was published on May 2, 2024. Going forward, one chapter will be published every month.

Episode 1 is below.

[Free Manga] The Part-time Life of a Hero and a Corporate Slave Desma 1 'I've started working part-time!' - GIGAZINE

Check out the second episode, which was just published on May 2, 2024, below.

[Free Manga] 'The Part-time Life of a Hero and a Corporate Slave' Episode 2 'Is a corporate slave hero the strongest?' A crappy hero goes back to exterminating monsters after being a corporate slave! - GIGAZINE

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◆March 2024
Number of access requests: 187.73 million
Page views: 39.66 million (an increase of 1.32 million)
Number of unique users: 17.37 million (an increase of 1.18 million)
Transfer volume: 17.123TB
*Measurements taken by Cloudflare.

Of the total transfer volume, images and other multimedia files accounted for approximately 14.499TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 2.624TB.

In addition, the number of articles created in March 2024 was 618.

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

1st place: Finally, Amazon is fined 1.2 billion yen for deceiving consumers with malicious 'dark patterns'

2nd place:Statistical analysis of 'who is working remotely' reveals that remote work is a 'luxury item for the highly educated'

3. Research shows that simply boiling water can reduce microplastics in drinking water by 90%, but it may be less effective with soft water

4th place: A system that generates electricity using a 'water-drinking bird' that can keep moving forever as long as there is water has been released, and it can operate for 50 hours with just 100 ml of water and produce a maximum voltage of 100 volts

5. Scientists invent a way to double the processing speed of PCs and smartphones while halving power consumption without upgrading hardware

6th place: NVIDIA's graphics board 'GeForce GTX' series is finally coming to an end

7th place: Why did Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, fall?

8th place: The reason why the Android version of the video playback app 'VLC' is not updated is because 'we don't want to give the private key to Google'

9th place: Google announces changes to lower the search rankings of 'low-quality pages that are designed to rank in Google searches, not for humans' purposes'

10th place: Euro NCAP, the car safety rating system, recommends that the automotive industry stop using touch screens and return to physical buttons

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

1st place: OpenAI signs deals with media outlets including Le Monde and Prisa Media to bring French and Spanish news content to ChatGPT

2. How Meta is working to improve interoperability with third-party messaging apps to comply with EU digital market laws

3. Meta's video sharing service 'Facebook Watch' is said to have been shut down to sell Netflix ads

4. Instagram and Threads restrict political content from being recommended by default

5th: Governor signs bill banning social media use for children under 14 and requiring parental consent for 14- to 15-year-olds to use social media

6th place: The US government announced that it will appoint a Chief AI Officer and an AI Governance Committee to all government agencies and prepare an annual report summarizing the risks associated with the use of AI

7. The Indian government will recommend that any AI under development or that is untrusted will require 'explicit government permission' before being deployed.

8th place: Google reports that 97 cyber attacks exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities were observed in 2023, a 50% increase from the previous year, with attacks targeting businesses on the rise

9. TikTok is working on building a new photo-sharing app to rival Instagram; app logo and some details revealed

10th place: A demo video of the Fediverse feature, which allows users to simultaneously post Threads posts to distributed SNS such as Mastodon, has been released.

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

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

No.2
Punk band The Swanky's first documentary film 'Volunteer of Fools' Trailer - YouTube

3rd place
Christina Aguilera x Movie 'Paw Patrol The Mighty Movie' Sky Special Video - YouTube

4th
Coperni's performance 'Create a dress just by spraying a naked woman' - YouTube

No.5
Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil sinks - YouTube

No.6
Videos with high resolution from 320x240 (QVGA) to 640x480 (VGA) using AI video quality tool 'Winxvideo AI' - YouTube

7th place
GIGAZINE exclusive release of the first 6 minutes of 'Eagle Claw 6' - YouTube

No.8
We experienced the acceleration force of 3.75G of Fuji-Q Highland's 'Do-Dodonpa' which reaches 180km/h in 1.56 seconds at a press test drive event - YouTube

No.9
Here's a video generated by Google's AI 'VLOGGER' from one photo and audio data - YouTube

10th
A movie of a piggy bank with a funny face 'FACE BANK' in action - YouTube


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

1st place: Chrome : 51.19% (0.97% increase)
2. Safari : 29.71% (down 1.16%)
3. Safari (in-app) : 6.66% (up 0.36%)
4th place: Edge : 6.13% (0.25% increase)
5. Firefox : 3.03% (up 0.35%)
6. Android Webview : 2.72% (up 0.06%)
7. Samsung Internet : 0.39% (down 0.01%)
8th place: Opera : 0.27 0.27% (no change)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.07% (no change)
10th place: Internet Explorer : 0.01% (down 0.01%)

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: Google News (3rd place last month)
3rd place: Facebook (2nd 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)
6th place: Pinterest (10th place last month)
7th place: Livedoor News (7th place last month)
8th place: Togetter (9th last month)
10th place: Feedly (10th place last month)

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

1st place: gigazine
2nd place: Amazon
3rd place: PS5 Pro performance
4th place: nitter
5th place: Computer
6th place: Greenland Shark
7th place: clothesoff
8th place: Pepe the Frog
9th place: Tobita Shinchi
10th place: yuzu

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