Netflix Is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic

https://www.statista.com/chart/15692/distribution-of-global-downstream-traffic/

by andsoitis • 3 years ago

59 41 3 years ago

Isn't it more like "users of Netflix are responsible for 15% of Internet traffic"? What would Netflix traffic be without its users?

Or are we talking just about their CDN synchronization, and not about the user traffic?

schnuri• 3 years ago

A TCP connection has exactly two endpoints. Netflix hypothetically could always decide not to sell their product

Terr_• 3 years ago

A TCP connection has exactly two endpoints.

Stop, you're hurting the NSA's feelings. :P

throwaway607072• 3 years ago

If the client/user doesn't ask to connect, there is no connection.

p1mrx3• 3 years ago

I wonder if they'd have the necessary data to report traffic in byte-meters instead of bytes? CDNs push a lot of traffic, but not very far.

fuzzylightbulb• 3 years ago

I feel like such an asinine statistic should use Imperial units!

p1mrx3• 3 years ago

Fine, bit-cubits it is.

supertrope2• 3 years ago

Football field GBs.

evujumenuk• 3 years ago

That sounds like bandwidth-delay product [0] with extra steps.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth-delay_product

supertrope2• 3 years ago

Is that even Internet traffic if in-net caches are counted?

rcme2• 3 years ago

Yes?

0cf8612b2e1e• 3 years ago

Disney at 4.5%. Unless they use significantly higher stream quality, that is a very impressive market share for a new entrant.

IntelMiner• 3 years ago

Does that include their stake in Hulu and others though?

wenc• 3 years ago

Not sure if traffic correlates to market share.

Prime video for instance has a lot of default subscribers (because a lot of us have Prime) but I don’t think I’ve ever watched anything HD. Most stuff is SD.

Whereas on YouTube my default quality is 4K.

tbihl• 3 years ago

Only new if you think the distribution system, rather than the actual content, is the sticky part.

justin_oaks• 3 years ago

I wonder how much Internet traffic is ads.

oriettaxx2• 3 years ago

that's a good one

vongomben• 3 years ago

I wonder how much pornhub and related are,

oriettaxx2• 3 years ago

and youtube?

pedroma• 3 years ago

A little less

hoppyhoppy2• 3 years ago

That's addressed in the article.

testemailfordg2• 3 years ago

Perhaps the reasons for Youtube being second in this list are following:-

1) Predominantly watched from mobile phones at lower quality settings.

2) Generally,people don't binge watch for 2-3 hours or more in one go on Youtube.

badpun• 3 years ago

Also, youtube tends to downgrade the quality from 1080p to lower grades quite aggresively, even when watching on a PC with a fiber connection. Possibly a cost-saving measure?

patmorgan23• 3 years ago

I've noticed this a lot more lately. I've started going in and toggling video quality up (instead of toggling it down to reduce buffering)

javier123454321• 3 years ago

Generally,people don't binge watch for 2-3 hours or more in one go on Youtube.

Hold my beer

lotsoweiners• 3 years ago

Yeah my kids will watch 6+ hours of YouTube or at least just leave it running even if not actively watching.

eternityforest• 3 years ago

1. Want to read a book, that's effort 2. Maybe watch a show instead. Nah that's a half hour commitment I feel I don't have time for 3. Oh I know! Let's scroll shit on YouTube! 4. Significant amounts of time have passed

em-bee3• 3 years ago

almost the same for me, except that if i read a book, i risk spending hours without paying attention to anything else, so no. 2 is also the reason why i don't watch half hour videos on youtube. but 3 and 4 happen anyways occasionally.

the problem is that with a book it's difficult to put down, especially mid-chapter. and with youtube videos i can stop after each video. (<- yeah right!)

solved it with audiobooks and making a list of shows i commit to watching when i have time, but no more than one episode per day.

nojs• 3 years ago

I call bs on this chart. What about all the Chinese streaming apps?

andsoitis• 3 years ago

Without more transparency (from the Chinese market) I'm not sure it would be tractable to report anything accurate.

kwere• 3 years ago

"chinese internet" is mostly a separate network from the internet as we know it

tinus_hn• 3 years ago

Downstream Internet traffic. So if a provider puts Netflix’ CDN box, which they provide for free, on their network, the ‘global traffic’ is next to nothing. It’s just traffic to the customers, which the customers pay for, and no transit that the provider (or Netflix) has to pay for.

Netflix Is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic

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