The web continues its return to regular—nonetheless one chooses to outline this time period—within the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With our newly up to date World Web Geography Analysis Service, we conclude that the COVID-related enlargement of web visitors and bandwidth was largely a one-off phenomenon, and that the traits we had been observing in recent times have reasserted themselves.
Worldwide web bandwidth and visitors progress have been steadily slowing in recent times, however they continue to be brisk.
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World web bandwidth rose by 28% in 2022, persevering with the return to “regular” from the pandemic-generated bump of 2020.
World web bandwidth rose by 28% in 2022, persevering with the return to “regular” from the pandemic-generated bump of 2020.
Whole worldwide bandwidth now stands at 997 Tbps, representing a 4-year CAGR of 29%. COVID bump apart, the tempo of progress has been slowing. Nonetheless, we do see a close to tripling of bandwidth since 2018.
Robust capability progress is seen throughout areas. Africa skilled essentially the most speedy progress of worldwide web bandwidth, rising at a compound annual fee of 44% between 2018 and 2022.
Asia sits behind Africa, rising at a 35% compound annual fee throughout the identical interval.
Worldwide Web Bandwidth Progress by Area
Notes: Knowledge as of mid-year. Supply: © 2022 TeleGeography
Worldwide web visitors progress largely mirrors that of web bandwidth.
Each common and peak worldwide web visitors elevated at a compound annual fee of 30% between 2018 and 2022—barely above the 29% compounded annual progress fee in bandwidth over the identical interval. All of the stay-at-home exercise related to COVID-19 resulted in a spike in visitors from 2019 to 2020.
The return to extra regular utilization patterns has resulted in a considerable drop in common and peak visitors for 2021–2022.
As one could anticipate, the return to extra regular utilization patterns has resulted in a considerable drop in common and peak visitors for 2021–2022.
Common visitors progress dropped from 47% between 2019-2020 to 29% between 2021-2022, whereas peak visitors progress dropped from 46% to twenty-eight% over the identical time interval.
In our World Web Geography Analysis Service, we analyze the which means of our sturdy web capability and visitors knowledge units. We additionally focus on elements impacting IP transit pricing and the function particular person spine operators play.
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