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How Easter, Passover and Ramadan show up in Internet trends

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Date Published
Author
João Tomé
Word Count
3,142
Language
English
Hacker News Points
1
Summary

During Easter week, traffic dropped significantly in several countries with predominantly Christian populations, including Spain and Italy in Europe; Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Chile in Latin America; Australia in Asia and Oceania; and the Philippines. For example, on Easter Sunday, April 9, traffic dropped by almost a third (~30%) in Spain, compared to the previous week. In Greece, which celebrates Orthodox Easter, Internet traffic was 26% lower on April 16 than in the previous week. This blog post highlights these trends and more using Cloudflare Radar tool or simply via social media accounts like Twitter (@CloudflareRadar) or Mastodon (https://cloudflare.com/product/mastodon) , where is?. The future of this technology will likely be used in various ways as time passes forward into the foreseeable future!.