GIGAZINE access analysis results for February 2024



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February 2024
Number of access requests: 173.27 million
Page views: 38.34 million (down 4.77 million)
Number of unique users: 16.19 million (down 1.96 million)
Transfer volume: 15.575TB

*Measurements taken by Cloudflare.

Of the total transfer volume, images and other multimedia files accounted for approximately 13.474TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 2.101TB.

In addition, the number of articles created in February 2024 was 582.

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

1st place: Advertisements will be added to Amazon Prime Video, and users who do not pay the extra fee will lose support for Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.



2nd place: Google announces that it will discontinue its payment app 'Google Pay' in the second half of 2024



3rd place: Google strongly appeals that 'Even if support for Windows 10 ends, you can continue to use your PC by installing ChromeOS Flex'



4. Google finally ends cached search results pages



5th place: A new discovery that has scientists saying is 'insane' - what is the mysterious biological entity 'Obelisk' that has been discovered in the human body and is neither a virus nor a bacterium?



6. SpaceX announces it will voluntarily dispose of 100 of its Starlink satellites by re-entering the atmosphere



7. The world's first two microcomputers were discovered by a house cleaner.



8th place: Apple officially warns users not to immerse their submerged iPhone in rice



9th place: Finally, a brave man plays 'DOOM' as E. coli, but it will take 600 years to clear



10th place: What is the game that was developed in 30 minutes but has generated sales of over 50 million yen?



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

1. Media giant Paramount lays off around 800 employees to cut costs



2nd place: Threads starts testing a 'bookmark feature' that lets you save your favorite posts and read them later



3rd place: European Commission launches investigation into TikTok as a 'child endangerment'



4. Instagram and Threads stop recommending political content but test 'topics of the day' that may show political content



5. Reddit signs licensing deal to allow its content to be used to train AI models



6th place: Leaving pet feces behind instead of taking it home is not only dirty but also poses the risk of spreading infectious diseases.



7. The CEOs of X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Snap, Discord, and Meta were summoned to appear before a public hearing on social media child safety. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to children and their families harmed by social media.



8th place: The company that runs the photo-sharing social networking site 'Snapchat' lays off about 540 employees



9th place: 'GREEN DAKARA Gentle Rooibos & Muscat' tasting review, where the sweet aroma of muscat adds a refreshing touch



10th place: Adobe announces new features for Adobe Acrobat that use generative AI to summarize PDF files, answer questions about their contents, navigate, and output text



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

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

No.2
Christina Aguilera x Movie 'Paw Patrol The Mighty Movie' Sky Special Video - YouTube

3rd place
Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil sinks - YouTube

4th
Punk band The Swanky's first documentary film 'Volunteer of Fools' Trailer - YouTube

No.5
Coperni's performance 'Create a dress just by spraying a naked woman' - YouTube

No.6
'World Tour Screening 'Demon Slayer: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba' The Miracle of Bonds, and Pillar Practice' The stage greeting of the pillars gathered looks like this - YouTube

7th place
Anti-rape condom 'Rape-aXe' - YouTube

No.8
How to launch an app with Android's minimal launcher 'Niagara Launcher' - YouTube

No.9
A movie that automatically animates live-action footage with image generation AI 'Stable Diffusion' and multi ControlNet - YouTube

10th
'World Tour Screening of 'Demon Slayer: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba' The Miracle of Bonds and Pillar Training' Declaration of 'I'm Coming' by Natsuki Hanae, who plays Tanjiro, and the returning Mini Corps members - YouTube


So, next we will look at the trends of GIGAZINE readers by browser they use, as follows.

1st place: Chrome : 50.22% (0.87% increase)
2. Safari : 30.87% (down 2.29%)
3. Safari (in-app) : 6.30% (down 0.47%)
4th place: Edge : 5.88% (0.80% increase)
5. Firefox : 2.98% (up 0.32%)
6. Android Webview : 2.66% (down 0.09%)
7. Samsung Internet : 0.40% (no change)
8. Opera : 0.27% (up 0.03%)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.07% (no change)
10th place: Internet Explorer : 0.02% (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 (2nd place last month)
3rd place: Google News (3rd place last month)
4th place: Hatena Bookmark (4th place last month)
5th place: SmartNews (5th place last month)
6th place: Global stock prices (6th place last month)
7th place: Livedoor News (8th place last month)
8th place: Feedly (9th last month)
9th place: Togetter (7th last month)
10th place: Pinterest (10th place last month)

Next, the top 10 phrases that led to searches on GIGAZINE are as follows.

1st place: gigazine
2nd place: Nintendo Switch
3rd place: nitter
4th place: xhamster
5th place: Doom
6th place: bluesky Just watch
7. Nintendo Next-Gen Console
8th place: Obelisk Biology
9th place: Google logo escape game
10th place: Apple Vision Pro

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