Global content delivery network Akamai is showing its UK traffic today as 21.3% of the global internet traffic. Whilst it isn’t true to extrapolate this to say that the UK represents 21.3% of all global internet traffic today it is a reasonable indicator as to the UK share of overall usage.
This is certainly being seen at Timico where our streaming traffic is up 357% which is even higher than yesterday’s reported budget watching traffic. This was itself a record 309% increase. Twitter is struggling this afternoon and the live football stream from the BBC on my 100Mbps connection is not great so – now you know why.
Photo below is a screenshot showing global network hotspots.
Global Akamai network hotspot map during the world cup match between England and Slovenia
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