The editor-in-chief of GIGAZINE talks about Google search at the official Google event 'Search Central Live Tokyo: The 2025 Return', and the results of GIGAZINE's access analysis for September 2025 are here



Announcement 1: The editor-in-chief of GIGAZINE will be speaking at a lightning talk session at Google's official event, ' Search Central Live Tokyo: The 2025 Return ,' to be held in Shibuya, Tokyo on Friday, November 7, 2025.



Search Central Live Tokyo will be held for the first time in two years since 2023, and is a rare face-to-face event from Google. The lightning talk will be a short 7-minute talk session, and the editor-in-chief of GIGAZINE will also be speaking. If you're curious to see what they'll be talking about, be sure to attend the event.

The event will be held on Friday, November 7, 2025 from 12:00 to 19:00 at the Shibuya Stream 5th floor, at 3-21-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo . Registration for the event can be made on the following website.

Search Central Live Tokyo 2025
https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/search-central-live-tokyo-2025



Announcement 2: Applications are now open for the GIGAZINE Manga Awards for October 2025. Works that have already been published in other media or platforms, or works that have been published in magazines but not published in book form, or works that have been discontinued midway through due to unavoidable circumstances, are also welcome, so please apply. For more details, see below.

'GIGAZINE Manga Award' starts accepting entries in October 2025 & the love battle between a man who loves making games and a woman who wants to focus on herself rather than the game is in full swing, so I've put it all together - GIGAZINE



Also, if you join the GIGAZINE Secret Club (GSC) , you can participate in the judging of works submitted to the GIGAZINE Manga Award. If you can't draw manga but want to read a lot of different things! Want to discover the masterpieces of the future? Becoming a member of GSC will make your dream come true.

So, here are some useful data to help you advertise on GIGAZINE :

◆September 2025
Number of access requests: 161.59 million
Page views: 43.86 million (an increase of 6.62 million)
Number of unique users: 16.09 million (an increase of 2.4 million)
Transfer volume: 14.998TB
*Measurement results by Cloudflare.

Of the total transfer volume, the volume of multimedia files such as images was approximately 12.546TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 2.452TB.

In addition, the number of articles created in September 2025 was 442.

Next, the top 10 most popular articles in September 2025. These are the results of an analysis using Google Analytics.

1st place: Apple has officially stated that scratches on the iPhone 17 Pro can be wiped off, so I tried scratching it with all my might.



2nd place: A collection of prompts and sample images that make the most of Google's image generation AI 'Nano-banana'



3. Food manufacturers are reducing or changing ingredients, making it impossible to recreate 'grandma's recipes.'



4. Apple warns that updating iPhone to iOS 26 will temporarily impact battery life



5th place: A summary of useful features in iOS 26, including 'Make app icons transparent,' 'Restore screenshot settings,' 'Set your favorite audio file as a ringtone,' and 'Make the lock screen clock bigger.'



6th place: 'iOS 26' distribution begins, here is the list of compatible iPhones



7th place: What does the 'Magically Modified Cup Noodles' taste like? We tried all four varieties to see what they taste like.



8th place: It turns out that bending ice can generate electricity, which may provide a clue to unraveling the long-standing mystery of lightning generation.



9th place: List of new anime starting in fall 2025



10th place: Gemini 2.5 I tried using an app specifically for turning illustrations into figures using Flash Image, which allows you to turn illustrations into figures without prompts.



So, next, to find out the trends of GIGAZINE readers, we look at the following by browser used.

1st place: Chrome : 50.84% (13.93% pt decrease)
2nd place: Safari : 32.32% (up 0.75% points)
3rd place: Edge : 6.01% (0.03%pt decrease)
4th place: Safari (in-app) : 3.54% (0.45%pt decrease)
5th place: Android Webview : 2.92% (0.46% pt decrease)
6th place: Firefox : 2.55% (0.89% pt decrease)
7th place: Samsung Internet : 0.26% (0.05%pt decrease)
8th place: Opera : 0.27% (up 0.03 percentage points)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.19% (up 0.06% points)
10th place: Android Browser : 0.02% (no change)

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: Hatena Bookmark (3rd place last month)
3rd place: Google News (2nd place last month)
4th place: SmartNews (4th place last month)
5th place: Facebook (5th place last month)
6th place: DuckDuckGo (6th last month)
7th place: Bluesky (7th place last month)
8th place: ChatGPT (10th place last month)
9th place: Livedoor News (9th place last month)
10th place: Qiita (not ranked last month)

Next, the top 10 phrases that led to GIGAZINE through searches are as follows:

1st place: gigazine
2nd place: ios26
3rd place: iphone17
4th place: nano banana
5th place: Apple presentation
6th place: Gemini figure
7th place: Circle drawing game
8th place: xiaomi 17
9th place: Azelastine nasal spray
10th place: cicada 3301

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