GIGAZINE sponsored lanterns will be displayed at the 'Ibaraki District Hometown Festival', so I went to see how they are made. Report & GIGAZINE's access analysis results for July 2025 are like this
GIGAZINE will be participating as a sponsor in the '
We arrived at Ibaraki Elementary School. The school is located on the site of Ibaraki Castle , which is said to have been built by Kusunoki Masashige, so the main gate looks like a castle gate and has a history of 152 years.
Apparently, lanterns for the Hometown Festival are being made in a room at Ibaraki Elementary School.
In the corner of the room, there was a rental umbrella, as it is a room in an elementary school. It is usually used for PTA meetings and as a storage area for materials.
Hanging inside the room were lanterns bearing the names of the sponsors.
And this is the lantern folded up.
When unfolded, it is a vertical lantern, about 50cm tall, with a red and white firebox.
This is what the inside looks like. It is designed to hold candles, but for the festival, they plan to put a light bulb inside to light it up.
Paint and brushes for writing the names of supporters. According to the staff who write the letters on the lanterns, if the paint is too thick the letters won't flow well, and if it's too thin the paint will run, so they have to be very careful about diluting it.
The lantern's firebox is accordion-shaped, making it difficult to write with, so first secure the lantern to a chair with a rope.
Pull it out and hold it in your left hand.
The letters written are 'GIGAZINE Gigajin' in both alphabet and katakana.
Dip the brush into the paint.
You can see how the letters are actually written on the lantern in the video below.
This is what it looks like when you finish writing.
Hang it indoors to dry.
This lantern will be hung at the Ibaraki Elementary School playground from 4pm on Sunday, September 14th as part of the Ibaraki District Hometown Festival. If you would like to see the real thing, please come and visit us.
So, here are some useful data to help you advertise on GIGAZINE :
◆July 2025
Number of access requests: 170.25 million
Page views: 44.64 million (an increase of 290,000)
Number of unique users: 19.78 million (down 1.09 million)
Transfer volume: 14.765TB
*Measurement results by Cloudflare.
Of the total transfer volume, the volume of multimedia files such as images was approximately 11.689TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 3.076TB.
In addition, the number of articles created in July 2025 was 501.
Next, the top 10 most popular articles in July 2025. These are the results of an analysis using Google Analytics.
1. The proposal for a completely new alphabet, 'ITA,' has left thousands of children unable to spell correctly.
10th place: A train-loving engineer discovers a huge model train diorama in the basement of his newly purchased house
So, next, to find out the trends of GIGAZINE readers, we look at the following by browser used.
1st place: Chrome : 56.28% (4.52%pt decrease)
2nd place: Safari : 27.37% (up 1.82% points)
3rd place: Edge : 6.30% (up 1.23% points)
4th place: Safari (in-app) : 3.99% (up 0.34% points)
5th place: Firefox : 3.61% (up 0.94% points)
6. Android Webview : 2.57% (up 0.59% points)
7th place: Samsung Internet : 0.29% (up 0.03 percentage points)
8th place: Opera : 0.25% (up 0.05% points)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.11% (up 0.03 percentage points)
10th place: Android Browser : 0.02% (up 0.01% points)
Next, the top 10 sites that linked to GIGAZINE and had the most traffic to GIGAZINE are as follows. Search engines are excluded.
1st place: X (1st place last month)
2nd place: Google News (2nd place last month)
3rd place: Hatena Bookmark (3rd place last month)
4th place: SmartNews (4th place last month)
5th place: Facebook (6th last month)
6th place: DuckDuckGo (7th last month)
7th place: ChatGPT (9th place last month)
8th place: Blusky (8th place last month)
9th place: Threads (5th place last month)
10th place: Livedoor News (10th place last month)
Next, the top 10 phrases that led to GIGAZINE through searches are as follows:
1st place: gigazine
2nd place: Alphabet
3rd place: claude
4. Deepfake App
5th place: Circle drawing game
6th place: gpt5
7th place: Anker PowerCore 10000
8th place: The most beautiful face in the world 2024
9th place: Circle drawing game
10th place: Expo rice prices
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