YouTube responsible for nearly 10% of all broadband traffic!

[TetsuoShima]

This makes that Youtube is responsible for about an equal ammount of traffic as all newsgroup traffic combined. It ammounts to 20% of all http traffic and more than 50% of all streaming http traffic. This incredible rise in popularity also makes that for the first time in years, there is more http than p2p traffic on the web.

 

'Critical' traffic takes on only a 'very small' portion of the total webtraffic.

 

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070619-the-youtube-effect-http-traffic-now-eclipses-p2p.html

[TFMF]

Clearly there has been a mistake. It should be NiteSciFi responsible for nearly 10% of all broadband traffic!

 

Such an obvious error... ::)

[Hilander72]

10% is a lot (almost disturbing). I never thought YT was that "common", but then again I'm not a "common" user. ::)

 

I do watch a couple of YT's a week, which is less than 0.1% of my total bandwidth. :-\

[Ulysses]

Clearly there has been a mistake. It should be NiteSciFi responsible for nearly 10% of all broadband traffic!

 

Such an obvious error... ::)

 

pmswl... yeah its hilanders fault

[hayden]

was it ment to be youtube specific. because there are alot of similar sites, but ones which offer entire television series and movies, some at pretty good quality. perhaps this is becoming more popular than p2p.

[paniq]

10% is a lot (almost disturbing). I never thought YT was that "common", but then again I'm not a "common" user. ::)

 

Its probably not, but it takes more bandwidth. The vast majority of people just use a very small bandwidth browsing and emailing. P2P had a biggish portion of traffic due to average monthly usage figures of 30GB (or much higher for some) compared to well under 1GB for the average non-p2p person.

 

There are a large number of TV-leechers who have mainly used P2P to access content not yet available to them (its a large portion of UK traffic to grab US programs) many are moving over to YT where their programs are being posted.

[GorunNova]

I don't know about that... I keep hearing people talking about YouTube videos in public, which at least means that the average joe knows about (and uses!) YouTube... and I'm talking people ranging from teenagers to 60 year olds.

 

I can believe those numbers. ^^

[Tenebrae]

These kind of stats can be pretty misleading... and I'm generally untrusting of them. I've heard stats putting torrent traffic at 40+% of ALL internet traffic and that's just crazy.

 

But it makes sense that something like youtube is making a dent. I imagine even just 2-3 videos could make up a big proportion of a user's average bandwidth.

[bbbb]

I'm not surprised youtube takes up a good chunk of bandwidth. It makes sense to me because with youtube you can see a lot of your favorite content, as well as some new fan content and it just takes up a lot less hassle than other means of viewing media content online. Even streaming movies and music is less reliable than youtube, is more cumbersome than youtube and is not as easy to use as youtube. youtube is like a new mtv. It has the potential to even replace tv because instead of getting content via other means (like p2p) you can just go on youtube and get your content much faster. The only catch is you need decent internet to use youtube. High speed internet makes media content like youtube practical and useful for a variety of purposes. Hollywood should try to cash in on youtube, they could make a lot of money that way.