Senior Product Manager
An examination of global Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare Radar during the third quarter of 2026. This review analyzes how power failures, natural disasters, and government shutdowns impacted network connectivity and traffic.
When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.
We redesigned Cloudflare Radar to make real-time global traffic and outage data accessible to a wider audience — including journalists, less technical researchers, and everyday users. By introducing an interactive map and standardized components, we simplified navigation while preserving technical depth.
Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks. By incorporating background telemetry from Cloudflare Challenge Pages, we have expanded our real-user measurement scale while maintaining user privacy.
Cloudflare's data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Iceland to Spain and Portugal, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on August 12, 2026.
Cloudflare Radar Researcher is a new AI-powered tool that lets you explore global Internet trends and traffic data using plain language. Built entirely on Cloudflare's Developer Platform, it turns natural language queries into real, interactive charts.
Cloudflare Radar tracked Internet disruptions driven by natural disasters, government-mandated shutdowns, and DNSSEC key rollovers over the last quarter. This post analyzes traffic telemetry to explain how these events impacted global connectivity.
We analyzed global HTTP traffic to explore how kickoff times, streaming habits, and hydration breaks reshaped online activity worldwide. From late-night traffic surges to halftime browsing spikes, here is how the world connected during the global tournament.
Cloudflare Radar data confirms early indications of a partial Internet restoration in Iran, nearly three months after the shutdown began. Traffic spikes and DNS queries have risen, but network activity is currently just 40% of pre-shutdown levels.
By migrating our request handling layer to a Rust-based architecture called FL2, Cloudflare has increased its performance lead to 60% of the world’s top networks. We use real-user measurements and connection trimeans to ensure our data reflects the actual experience of people on the Internet.
In this blog post we’ll discuss how Cloudflare thinks about measuring Internet quality, how our own Cloudflare speed test works, and our future plans for providing Internet measurement tools that help everyone build a better Internet.
On the Internet, being fast is what matters and at Cloudflare, we are committed to being the fastest network in the world.
