The Weekly Internet Pulse: Week 35, 2026
Real-time traffic insights for the week of August 24, 2026
This week's internet health
Localized Disruptions3 localized routing or DNS incidents isolated to regional edge clusters.
▸ How is this calculated?▾ How is this calculated?
Score = 100 - (8 × outage count), minimum 40. An outage is any tracked site returning sustained 5xx errors during the week. Baseline tracks the 8-week rolling mean across all 137 tracked sites.
Conversational AI query volume held steady at 9.3% of traditional search velocity, demonstrating complementary parallel usage across global audiences.
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Top Sites by Traffic This WeekNo significant rank changes in the top 30 this week
View live rank shifts on Trending →Currently #1 - 85.0B / mo monthly visits.
Currently #2 - 34.8B / mo monthly visits.
Currently #3 - 15.2B / mo monthly visits.
Currently #4 - 6.8B / mo monthly visits.
Currently #5 - 5.5B / mo monthly visits.
This Week's Internet Stories
Entertainment leads growth at +3.8%
The entertainment category saw the largest week-over-week traffic increase across all sectors, with 16 tracked sites generating an estimated 42.1B monthly visits combined.
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.
Global internet traffic up 2% this week
Combined traffic across all 137 monitored sites is up from last week, with a current aggregate rate of 82,675 requests per second.
North American Cloud & Enterprise
Concentrated compute and generative AI queries anchored high mid-week request volumes across primary North American edge routing regions. Google anchored regional volume at 33,035 req/s (85.0B / mo / mo).
Traffic by Category
| Category | Sites | vs Last Wk |
|---|---|---|
Search | 7 | +3.3% |
Entertainment | 16 | +3.8% |
Social Media | 11 | -1.7% |
AI Assistants | 6 | +1.8% |
E-Commerce | 15 | +2.5% |
Developer Tools | 18 | -0.7% |
Reference | 11 | -0.6% |
News & Media | 11 | -1.0% |
Finance | 8 | +1.9% |