Weekly Internet Report● Live DataMonday, August 17, 2026
The Weekly Internet Pulse: Week 34, 2026
Real-time traffic insights for the week of August 17, 2026
Total Tracked Traffic
81,821/s
▼ 0.1% vs last week
Most Visited Site
Google
85.0B / mo at 32,708 req/s
Fastest Growing
AI Assistants
+4.6% this week
Internet Health
60 / 100
5 outages detected
60/ 100
This week's internet health
The Internet Health Score is a composite metric calculated from the uptime status of all 100 monitored platforms, Cloudflare Radar routing anomaly counts, and reported incident severity. A score of 60 indicates the internet is operating near optimal capacity with no major widespread disruptions this week.
Combined traffic rate: 81,821 req/s across all 100 tracked sites.
Top Rank Movers This Week
#100
#99
#96
#5
#50
Netlify68.0M / mo
Held steady at #100 with 68.0M / mo monthly visits.
Docker70.0M / mo
Held steady at #99 with 70.0M / mo monthly visits.
TechCrunch75.0M / mo
Held steady at #96 with 75.0M / mo monthly visits.
ChatGPT5.5B / mo
Held steady at #5 with 5.5B / mo monthly visits.
Disney+350.0M / mo
Held steady at #50 with 350.0M / mo monthly visits.
This Week's Internet Stories
AI Assistants
AI Assistants leads growth at +4.6%
The ai assistants category saw the largest week-over-week traffic increase across all sectors, with 6 tracked sites generating an estimated 8.9B monthly visits combined.
AI
AI platforms command growing internet share
6 AI platforms now account for 4.2% of all tracked web traffic. ChatGPT leads the category at #5 with 5.5B / mo monthly visits.
Traffic
Global internet traffic down 0.06% this week
Combined traffic across all 100 monitored sites is down from last week, with a current aggregate rate of 81,821 requests per second.
Traffic by Category
| Category | Sites | Est. Monthly | vs Last Wk |
|---|---|---|---|
Search | 7 | 95.1B / mo | -1.4% |
Entertainment | 16 | 41.0B / mo | +1.2% |
Social Media | 11 | 38.6B / mo | +1.6% |
AI Assistants | 6 | 8.9B / mo | +4.6% |
E-Commerce | 15 | 8.3B / mo | -1.4% |
Developer Tools | 18 | 8.1B / mo | -0.2% |
Reference | 11 | 7.6B / mo | -1.3% |
News & Media | 11 | 3.1B / mo | -1.1% |
Finance | 8 | 1.4B / mo | +0.4% |
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