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Does anyone know what percentage of the Internet the torrent protocol is responsible for using?

• xtracto 12y ago
  3.35% according to [this webpage]( http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/app-usage-risk-report-visualization/#sthash.8wYww5gT.dpbs http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/app-usage-risk-re...( cited by [BitTorrent wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent) Impressive how it went from being the 35% of traffic in 2004.
  • jstanek 12y ago
    That's also partly due to Netflix' extreme web market share: They account for ~31% of all global aggregate internet usage, and combined with Youtube, the major video streamers account for ~43% of all global aggregate internet usage. That's probably because their business models necessitate a lot of traffic, since content needs to be re-downloaded on each viewing/listening.
    • kalleboo 12y ago
      Well according to xtracto's link, Netflix is only 0.85% (and YouTube is 5.7%), so I don't think numbers can be compared across sources - the methods of measuring traffic seem to vary wildly.