GIGAZINE access analysis results for April 2024

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

April 2024
Number of access requests: 188.65 million
Page views: 42.24 million (an increase of 2.58 million)
Number of unique users: 17.09 million (down 280,000)
Transfer volume: 16.643TB
*Measurements taken by Cloudflare.

Of the total transfer volume, images and other multimedia files accounted for approximately 13.962TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 2.681TB.

In addition, the number of articles created in April 2024 was 613.

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

1st place: LG washing machine uses 3.6GB of data per day, perplexes owner, LG launches investigation

2. The cause of the Voyager 1 malfunction that caused it to send indecipherable data for five months has been discovered .

3rd place: Engineer solves the mystery of why 'my WiFi only works when it's raining'

4th place: The world's first 'highway where EVs can be wirelessly charged while driving' will soon be built

5. Pulse charging can double the battery life of smartphones and laptops

6th place: It was discovered that a driver that prevents users from changing the default browser from Microsoft Edge was distributed to Windows

7th place: The world's smallest Wii is here, about the same size as a playing card and only 7.4% of the volume of the actual machine

8th place: Sodium-ion battery that can be charged in seconds is born

9th place: Google agrees to discard browsing data collected in Chrome's 'Incognito mode,' a victory worth $1 trillion for plaintiffs

10th place: Spy.pet, which extracts over 4 billion messages from Discord and sells them for a fee, has been revealed

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

1st place: Threads expands the scope of its keyword mute feature's 'hidden words' to feeds, searches, and profiles

2. Threads is testing a new option that lets you archive old posts

3. Instagram is testing a new feature called 'Blend' that lets two people share a single recommended timeline

4. The FCC fined T-Mobile and other major telecommunications carriers a total of $200 million for illegally sharing users' location data

5. TikTok begins testing 'TikTok Notes,' a feature that lets users post photos and text in an Instagram-like format

6th place: Threads plans to adopt a DM function that relies on Instagram, 'Threads does not plan to have its own DM function,' Meta said.

7th place: Adobe starts offering Acrobat AI Assistant, an AI tool that summarizes PDF documents and answers questions about their contents, on a subscription basis

8th place: OpenAI and the Financial Times have formed a strategic partnership to display Financial Times information within ChatGPT

9. Threads will temporarily shut down its service in Turkey from April 29th to comply with a government injunction banning data sharing between Threads and Instagram.

10. The Federal Communications Commission decides to reinstate the neutrality rule to ensure the internet is fast, open, and fair.

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

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

No.2
Jackie Chan's 70th Anniversary Legendary Video - YouTube

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

4th
Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil sinks - YouTube

No.5
Zoom into the Horsehead Nebula released by ESA - YouTube

No.6
Coperni's performance 'Create a dress just by spraying a naked woman' - YouTube

7th place
I tried washing my bike with Karcher's battery-powered washing machine 'OC 3 Foldable' - YouTube

No.8
Anti-rape condom 'Rape-aXe' - YouTube

No.9
PETA protests seal hunting in body paint - 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 : 55.34% (up 4.15%)
2. Safari : 26.83% (down 2.88%)
3. Safari (in-app) : 6.81% (0.15% increase)
4th place: Edge : 5.30% (down 0.83%)
5. Android Webview : 2.72% (no change)
6. Firefox : 2.69% (down 0.34%)
7. Samsung Internet : 0.32% (down 0.07%)
8. Opera : 0.23% (down 0.04%)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.08% (0.01% increase)
10th place: Internet Explorer : 0.01% (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 (3rd place last month)
3rd place: Google News (2nd place last month)
4th place: Hatena Bookmark (4th place last month)
5th place: Global stock prices (6th place last month)
6th place: SmartNews (5th place last month)
7th place: Togetter (8th last month)
8th place: livedoor news (7th place last month)
9th place: Pinterest (6th 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: Washing machine
3rd place: Wi-Fi
4th place: April Fools' jokes
5th place: New iPad model
6th place: PS5 Pro
7th place: nitter
8th place: Voyager 1
9th place: Fried chicken cheese chicken tatsuta
10th place: Hacking site

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