David Belson

Head of Data Insights at Cloudflare
I stare at data about the Internet

David Belson boosted:
2025-12-19

We found that traffic from
Starlink grows quickly once service becomes available in the country. In 2025, we saw this in #Armenia, #Niger, and #SriLanka, among others.

See our 2025 Year in Review for more on how Starlink traffic grew in your country: radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-r

David Belson boosted:
2025-12-18

🚨Check out my 2025 year-end internet analysis wrap-up for @kentikinc !🚨

This year we covered topics from BGP security and the geopolitical (Ukraine's IPv4 exodus, the Iran internet shutdown, and Red Sea cable cuts) to the year's most notorious outages.

kentik.com/blog/a-year-in-inte

David Belsondbelson
2025-12-18

@ricmac 🤘

David Belson boosted:
2025-12-18

In #Mexico, the top sources of bot traffic in 2025 were subscriber networks, while in the #UnitedStates, the top sources were cloud platforms.

Find the top sources of bot traffic for your country/region in the 2025 Year in Review:
radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-r

David Belson boosted:
2025-12-17

DeepSeek, Grok, and Google Gemini were new to the global top 10 list of most popular Generative AI services in 2025. Check out the Year in Review to see the most popular Generative AI services in your country:

radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-r

David Belson boosted:
2025-12-16

That email from the .christmas TLD is probably naughty. In 2025, 99.8% of messages from that domain analyzed by @cloudflare Email Security were classified as malicious or spam. The .lol TLD wasn't much better -- it's no laughing matter.

Find out more at radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-r

David Belsondbelson
2025-12-16

My latest post for the Cloudflare Blog:
The 2025 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review: The rise of AI, post-quantum, and record-breaking DDoS attacks

blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2025

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David Belson boosted:
2025-12-15

More than half of TLS 1.3 traffic is using post-quantum (PQ) encryption, protecting it from "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks. Major growth seen in mid-September when Apple OS updates enabled default PQ support. Learn more in our 2025 Year in Review: radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-r

David Belson boosted:
2025-12-15

The 2025 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is here. Here are the Internet trends and patterns observed across the globe, revealing the disruptions, advances, and metrics that defined 2025.
blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2025

David Belson boosted:
2025-12-15

The 2025 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is here. Here are the Internet trends and patterns observed across the globe, revealing the disruptions, advances, and metrics that defined 2025. blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2025

David Belsondbelson
2025-12-08

@rsalz It's appreciated, regardless. :)

David Belsondbelson
2025-12-08

@rsalz Thanks - still throws up an access request screen.

David Belsondbelson
2025-12-08

@rsalz Subtle. :)

Can you change permissions on the file to make it available to read?

David Belson boosted:
2025-11-27

More than 25% of all websites now use a reverse proxy service. More than 80% of those use #Cloudflare.
w3techs.com/technologies/histo

David Belsondbelson
2025-11-26

@meileaben @IODA @cloudflareradar We'll keep an eye out for traffic anomalies.

David Belson boosted:
2025-11-10

Last few days for funding “Go Computer Now!”, a book about the nearly forgotten, pioneering Utah computer firm Sphere (1975–1977) that you likely *never heard about*. (I edited the book.) Help us get over the last hump at kickstarter.com/projects/bzott @bzotto

David Belsondbelson
2025-11-05

@joebeone May you be a pest for many more years...

David Belsondbelson
2025-10-28

My latest post for the Cloudflare Blog:
Online outages: Q3 2025 Internet disruption summary

blog.cloudflare.com/q3-2025-in

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David Belsondbelson
2025-10-28

My latest post for the Cloudflare Blog:
From .com to .anything: introducing Top-Level Domain (TLD) insights on Cloudflare Radar

blog.cloudflare.com/introducin

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