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Hey everyone,
Using publicly available data from one of Britain's largest Internet exchanges The Office for National Statistics has started monitoring the UK's Internet traffic recently and has already come up with some interesting observations.
According to the ONS Internet use peaks at 9pm on Wednesdays and is most quiet between 4 and 5 am during the week. Some other interesting findings were:
- Traffic falls between 16:00 and 18:00 with its lowest point at 18:00 on weekdays (not weekends
- Traffic peaks at 21:00 on weekdays, particularly midweek
- Traffic is generally quieter at weekends and bank holidays
- Traffic peaks at 13:00 during weekends
Most of these observations make sense such as the dip in traffic during the time most people are travelling home from work.
Interestingly we also see a rise in traffic on the community during Wednesday evenings!
Do you follow the UK trends for Internet usage and did you find anything surprising or usual about the ONS findings?
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@Anonymous wrote:
@Mi-Amigo wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I'd guess they are using the data from the London Internet Exchange
Says a lot. I wouldn`t trust data from someone/something with acronym L.I.E.
Now, now
It's actually referred to as LINX and is a non-profit owned by it's members, the ISPs and content providers that rent ports on the switch fabric and whose members also donate engineer time to it's maintenance.
It actually came about to avoid BT and the early ISPs from having to send traffic that was UK bound via the US in the early days of businesses and Joe and Jane Public using the internet, as it was both slow and expensive as the traffic was usually metered.
All is well explained then to me and thanks for that @Anonymous
some sense anyway.
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Most of the findings were pretty obvious but I think it was worth doing in case there were any peaks in usage that defied expectations.
My own usage follows the trends and I'm online most of the time when at home either gaming, streaming TV or music.
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Agreed @Anonymous it's not worth watching. I particularly dislike the constant break for adverts. It really distracts me from getting into a show and they seem to coordinate so channel flipping is useless. I much prefer to pay for content on demand and be free of the constant interruptions.
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It's all down to individual taste I think? Personally, I think Autumn TV improves massively. Just finished watching Confession (based on a true story) on ITV.
Peaky Blinders finished 3 weeks ago. Loads more dramas are due this month and in November.
Also, who in their right mind would want to miss this stunning new series by David Attenborough?
7 Worlds, One Planet...starting on October 27th on BBC1
If there is nothing on TV then there is always Netflix and Amazon Prime
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There's definitely some fantastic shows on TV @Cleoriff. It's more the format that I don't get a long with. It spoils you when you have an entire series available with no adds so I find it frustrating going back to regular TV.
I do love anything from David Attenborough! The last thing I watched from him was Dynasties when they followed the penguins!
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I tend to watch ITV3 these days. 10pm Monday Tuesday and I catch up with Scott & Bailey, Banksy and other programmes I missed the first time round. Not much else on now since Peaky Blinders finished.....
