GIGAZINE's categories have changed a bit! And what did the editor-in-chief of GIGAZINE talk about at Google's headquarters? Here are the results of GIGAZINE's access analysis for October 2025

Notice 1: The categories for classifying GIGAZINE articles have been updated. Specifically, the new categories ' Education ' and ' AI ' have been added, and 'Members Only' has been changed to ' Paid Members ,' 'Mobile' to ' Smartphone ,' and 'Art' to ' Creative .' Furthermore, the order of categories on the form has also been changed, and they are now listed in order of the number of registered articles.

Announcement 2: At the official Google event 'Search Central Live Tokyo: The 2025 Return' held on Friday, November 7, 2025, the editor-in-chief of GIGAZINE took part in a 7-minute lightning talk session.

Signs leading to 'Google'

Arrived at Google Japan headquarters in Shibuya Stream.

You will be greeted by Android's mascot character, Droid-kun.

The theme of the talk session was 'Where are your readers? Uncover the truth about news sites with Google Search Console!' The first slide looked like this:

What exactly the editor-in-chief of GIGAZINE talked about will be revealed at a later date, so please look forward to it.

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

◆October 2025
Number of access requests: 130.4 million
Page views: 42.78 million (down 1.08 million)
Number of unique users: 13.42 million (down 2.67 million)
Transfer volume: 14.044TB
*Measurement results by Cloudflare.

Of the total transfer volume, the volume of multimedia files such as images was approximately 12.195TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 1.849TB.

In addition, the number of articles created in October 2025 was 484.

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

1st place: 'Ice XXI' discovered, which becomes solid at room temperature

2nd place: A massive AWS outage caused half of the web to go down, resulting in economic losses of tens of trillions of yen. Some point out that this is evidence that talented engineers are leaving AWS.

3.General Motors discontinues Apple CarPlay and Android Auto across all vehicles

4th place: Nike unveils its first electric footwear, 'Project Amplify,' which is a shoe version of an electric bicycle and advertises it as 'a second calf muscle'

5. Shiitake mushrooms could replace computer memory chips

6. How to uninstall OneDrive and never bring it back

7. Reports say Apple will drastically cut production of iPhone Air due to 'near-zero demand'

8th place: Hyper Neo Geo 64 analysis completed after 20 years of improvements, sound also reproduced on emulator

9th place: 'Desktop Mate NieR:Automata YoRHa No.2 Type B DLC' has been released, featuring the famous '2B' on your desktop. Of course, there's also the suicide costume purge.

10th place: Pixel 10 Pro Fold almost explodes during YouTuber's durability test, a rare case in '10 years'

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

1st place: Chrome : 57.83% (up 6.99% points)
2nd place: Safari : 22.51% (9.81%pt decrease)
3rd place: Edge : 7.91% (up 1.90% points)
4th place: Firefox : 5.54% (up 3.00% points)
5th place: Safari (in-app) : 2.87% (0.67%pt decrease)
6th place: Android Webview : 2.21% (0.71%pt decrease)
7th place: Opera : 0.60% (up 0.33% points)
8th place: Samsung Internet : 0.24% (0.02%pt decrease)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.16% (0.03%pt decrease)
10th place: Mozilla : 0.03% (new)

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: Google News (3rd place last month)
2nd place: Hatena Bookmark (2nd place last month)
3rd place: X (1st place last month)
4th place: SmartNews (4th place last month)
5th place: DuckDuckGo (6th last month)
6th place: Bluesky (7th place last month)
7. MSN (out of the top 10 last month)
8th place: Facebook (5th place last month)
9th place: TBN17 (out of the top 10 last month)
10th place: livedoor blog (9th place last month)

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

1st place: GIGAZINE
2nd place: AI
3. Porn
4th place: Anime
5th place: Rubber
6th place: youtube
7th place: Browser
8th place: iPhone
9th place:yt-dlp
10th place windows11

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