Example graph of web traffic at Wikipedia in December 2004

Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks.

Amount of traffic

The following table shows the amount of backbone traffic in the United States:

worldwide estimates:

In June 2008, Cisco Systems estimated internet traffic at about 7 Exabytes per month (-160 TB per second). They also expected traffic to exceed 44 Exabytes per month (-1.1 PB per second) by 2012.^[1]

References

• Adams, Cecil (7 October 2005) "How much of all Internet traffic is pornography-" at The Straight Dope. Accessed 11 October 2005.
• Long-Term Traffic Statistics
• The Size and Growth Rate of the Internet

Further reading

• Williamson, Carey (2001). "Internet Traffic Measurement". IEEE Internet Computing 5 (6): 70-74. doi:10.1109/4236.968834. 

External links

• The Internet Traffic Report

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