GIGAZINE access analysis results for December 2024

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Announcement 1: Thank you to everyone who applied to our Winter 2024 giveaway ! If you were not selected this time, we look forward to seeing you again in our Spring 2025 giveaway.

Announcement 2: The 4th episode of the free full-color manga 'Let Me Make It! Ejima-san,' currently being serialized on GIGAZINE, has been published!

[Free Manga] 'Let me make it! Ejima-san' Episode 4 'I'll do something that can't be done in a game' What will be the outcome of the 'maid cosplay plan' proposed by the junior to the two who are not making any progress?

The synopsis is like this.

Aya Ejima, a member of a game club at an art university, is troubled by a source of worry. Kaidou, a junior in the club, does not hide his feelings for Ejima, but is passionate about creating a romance game with Ejima as the heroine. Sometimes the content is even erotic...
Ejima doesn't like Kaido, who only dotes on the in-game 'Ejima-san,' so she tries every trick in the book to get him to notice her real self.
Will the battle between a man who wants to turn the woman he admires into a game versus a woman who wants people to notice her and not the game become even more brutal...?

Announcement 3: We would appreciate it if you could support GIGAZINE, which is currently experiencing a sharp decline in advertising revenue from Google, even if it is just 1 yen! We would be grateful if you could help us out in any way you can, such as by adding items to our Amazon wishlist , making donations , or registering as a paid member.

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

◆December 2024
Number of access requests: 190.77 million
Page views: 42.05 million (an increase of 4.53 million)
Number of unique users: 15.86 million (an increase of 650,000)
Transfer volume: 15.901TB
*Measurements taken by Cloudflare.

Of the total transfer volume, images and other multimedia files accounted for approximately 12.852TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 3.049TB.

In addition, the number of articles created in December 2024 was 574.

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

1st place: The US Department of Agriculture announces that it has eradicated the Asian giant hornet

2nd place: A domestic Chinese-style SNS called 'Tai-Tai' that can only post fake Chinese characters full of kanji has appeared, anonymous free registration not required, compatible with both Apple terminals and black terminals

3rd place: 43-inch Sony CRT TV, one of the world's largest, weighing 200kg, salvaged from a soba restaurant in Osaka

4th place: What is the true identity of the mysterious button that isn't even mentioned in the instruction manual that was found on cars?

5th place: List of new anime starting in winter 2025

6th place: The world's oldest wine, discovered in Spain, contains an unexpected ingredient

7th place: A video showing the disassembly and repair of an unusually expensive piece of audiophile equipment was published on YouTube and then deleted due to copyright infringement

8th: Time moves faster on the moon than on Earth

9. Scientists create world's first 'carbon-14 diamond battery' that will power devices for thousands of years

10th place: Crab chip from Raspberry Pi monitor

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

1st place: Reddit announces 'Reddit Answers,' a chat AI that can search and summarize topics on message boards - GIGAZINE

2nd place: 'Starbucks Mellow Strawberry Tea Latte' Tasting Review - GIGAZINE

3rd place: A survey result shows that a Facebook account that broke Meta advertising rules and ran an election campaign was viewed 179 million times without being suspended - GIGAZINE

4th place: 'GIGAZINE Manga Award' December 2024 recruitment begins & looking back at serialized works before the final episode - GIGAZINE

5. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposes limiting sales of personal and financial information by data brokers - GIGAZINE

6. The Supreme Court announced that it will hear the challenge to the TikTok ban law on January 10, 2025 - GIGAZINE

7. It turns out that 75% of posts containing URLs on Facebook are shared without reading the linked content - GIGAZINE

8th place: Baidu's robot taxi service 'Apollo Go' to begin test runs in Hong Kong, the first outside mainland China - GIGAZINE

9th place: You can now follow users of ActivityPub-compatible SNS such as Mastodon directly on Threads and receive notifications of new posts - GIGAZINE

10th place:
Looking back at the meeting and separation of the AI girl who fell in love with the girl, what is the 'secret' hidden between the two girls? - GIGAZINE

Next, the top 10 YouTube views in December 2024 are as follows:

No.1
'Genesis', an open source generation physics engine that can train robots in a simulated world 430,000 times faster than the real world, looks like this - YouTube

No.2
Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil sinks - YouTube

No.3
Anti-rape condom 'Rape-aXe' - YouTube

No.4
Try replacing the B-CAS card with the BLACKCAS card - YouTube

No.5
I tried using the note function of the 2024 model of Amazon's e-book reader 'Kindle Scribe' - YouTube

No.6
'TOKUFASTbot' robot that solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305 seconds - YouTube

No.7
'White House Down' long trailer - YouTube

No.8
A movie in which Professor Mori Kaoru of 'Otoyomegatari' draws Amil on colored paper - YouTube

No.9
Christina Aguilera x Movie 'Paw Patrol The Mighty Movie' Sky Special Video - YouTube

No.10
PETA protests seal hunting in body paint - YouTube


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

1st place: Chrome : 54.70% (up 6.13%)
2nd place: Safari : 30.20% (up 3.84%)
3rd place: Edge : 5.91% (0.37% decrease)
4th place: Safari (in-app) : 3.99% (0.22% increase)
5. Firefox : 2.97% (up 0.03%)
6. Android Webview : 2.50% (up 2.26%)
7. Samsung Internet : 0.34% (up 0.01%)
8. Opera : 0.23% (up 0.01%)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.07% (0.02% decrease)
10th place: Android Browser : 0.01% (out of the ranking)

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: Google News (2nd place last month)
3rd place: Hatena Bookmark (3rd place last month)
4th place: SmartNews (4th place last month)
5th place: Facebook (5th place last month)
6th place: Global stock prices (6th place last month)
7th place: DuckDuckGo (not ranked last month)
8th place: livedoor news (7th place last month)
9th place: dmenu (8th place last month)
10th place: BlueSky (9th place last month)

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

1st place: gigazine
2nd place: Asian giant hornet America
3rd place: The most beautiful face in the world 2024
4th place: Wine
5th place: Many-to-Many
6th place: Year-end Jumbo winning numbers
7th place: rtx5090
8th place: Chainsaw Man Movie
9th place: Nintendo Switch 2
10th place: Shiga Prefecture Quoits

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