Today’s blog is about the real time information about the traffic and web attacks worldwide.
This activity is performed by a company called Akamai. It constantly monitors the internet conditions on these two parameters worldwide and presents on the graph real time.
These two graphs serve the following purposes:
- Monitoring greatest web traffic
- Cities with the slowest web connections also known as latency
- Geographic areas with the most web traffic also known as traffic density
This visualization is interactive and one can look at the network traffic and attacks country wise.
Analyzing this visualization, one can observe that the highest network traffic is in the UK and European subcontinent. However, the maximum number of attacks is in California with an average of 1,423,212 attacks per 24 hours.
However, it seems like this monitoring tool focusses on only certain areas and does not provide a comprehensive overview of the attacks in countries like Canada; South American and African countries. Further, no information is available for the network traffic in the Indian subcontinent. This does not mean that there is no network traffic in those areas but it means that the comprehensive data is not available for all the countries.