From: Joly MacFie [mailto:joly@punkcast.com]
Incidentally, some traffic stats on
downfall-did-to-the-web/<http://gigaom.com/2012/01/20/follow-the-traffic-what-megauploads-downfall-did-to-the-web/>
MegaUpload was indeed one of the more popular sites on the web for
storing
and sharing content. It ranked as .98 percent of the total web
traffic
in the U.S. and 11.39 of the total web traffic in Brazil. It garnered
1.95 percent of the traffic in Asia-Pac and a less substantial .86
percent in Europe.
Our (Sandvine) report<http://www.sandvine.com/news/global_broadband_trends.asp> shows the amounts of traffic for various storage and backup sites such as megaupload, rapidshare, etc. In the US residential ISP traffic megaupload was ~1% of downstream. Other sites are starting to 'voluntarily' shut down access to the US (e.g. filesonic), and you can see the fairly sharp cut-off as below image. [note the chart doesn't give you an absolute sense since you know neither the number of customers nor the amount of the total bandwidth used, but it gives you a relative view. In this particular chart, there was approximately 10Gbps of traffic from all protocols present, yielding the ~1% for Megaupload] Given that filesonic cut off sharing, but still allows users to fetch links they themself posted, one could make the assumption from the below that there was negligible traffic due to people re-fetching their own content. [cid:image001.png@01CCD9A8.2AB2B630] Some more stats on http://www.betterbroadbandblog.com/2012/01/megaupload-gets-shut-down/ --don
