{"id":2095,"date":"2009-03-05T21:44:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T13:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2018-06-26T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T02:28:29","slug":"akamai-visualizing-web-traffic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/computers\/akamai-visualizing-web-traffic-data-2095","title":{"rendered":"Akamai - visualizing Web traffic data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.akamai.com\/\">Akamai<\/a> is an Internet services company. They can tell us some very interesting things about what people do on the Web. From their blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you use the Internet for anything - to download music or software, check the headlines, book a flight - you've probably used Akamai's services without even knowing it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is no small company:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Akamai handles 20% of the world's total Web traffic, providing a unique view into what's happening on the Web - what events are generating traffic, how much, from where, and why. [You can] get a feel for the world's online behavior at any given moment - how much rich media is on the move, the sheer volume of data in play, the number and concentration of worldwide visitors, and average connection speeds worldwide. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let's have a look at some of their data. <\/p>\n<p>The 24-hour peak today on Akamai servers was 74 million visits per minute.<\/p>\n<p>The following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akamai.com\/html\/technology\/visualizing_akamai.html\">continually updating charts<\/a> show what people are doing and looking at in various countries.<\/p>\n<h2>Network Traffic<\/h2>\n<p>At the time I visited Akamai and took these screen shots, Europe (and to a lesser extent the east coast of the USA, Japan and China) showed higher than normal Web traffic.  (It was around lunch time in Europe when I collected this data).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/03\/akamai-1.gif\" alt=\"Akamai Web traffic\" title=\"akamai-1\" width=\"389\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Network Attacks<\/h2>\n<p>Here are the attacks on the system that were happening when I visited. China, Eastern Europe and Chile had the most problems.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/03\/akamai-2.gif\" alt=\"Akamai network attacks\" title=\"akamai-2\" width=\"389\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Is your Internet Slow?<\/h2>\n<p>\"Latency\" is the term used to mean a slow network. The following image shows where there were bottlenecks when I visited - in Chicago, New York, California and Europe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/03\/akamai-3.gif\" alt=\"Akamai latency\" title=\"akamai-3\" width=\"386\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Music<\/h2>\n<p>Akamai host several online music companies (including CHUM Interactive, Clear Channel, Napster, Premiere Radio Networks, Rediff.com, and XM Satellite Radio). This gives a pretty good overview on how much music is being listened to at any one time. Today, the peak for music visitors was around 1\/2 million visitors per minute. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/03\/akamai-4.gif\" alt=\"Akamai music statistics\" title=\"akamai-4\" width=\"379\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Any other Math?<\/h2>\n<p>Apart from the pretty visualizations of statistics, what mathematics is involved? According to the site:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Akamai built the world's largest distributed computing platform \u2013 the Akamai EdgePlatform -- using applied mathematics and algorithms to solve congestion and vulnerability problems on the Internet. It is a network of 40,000 secure servers equipped with specialized software and deployed in 70 countries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Akamai is an interesting site. It reveals a lot of interesting \"real life\" data about Web use and presents it in an appealing way and is certainly worth a visit. That link again:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.akamai.com\/html\/technology\/visualizing_akamai.html\">Akamai Web Statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/computers\/akamai-visualizing-web-traffic-data-2095#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/computers\/akamai-visualizing-web-traffic-data-2095\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/03\/akamai-1a.gif\" alt=\"Akamai Europe traffic\" title=\"akamai-1a\" width=\"128\" height=\"99\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Here's some interesting statistics about web traffic, attacks on the system and online music downloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[125,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11483,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/11483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}