Weekly Internet Report● Live DataMonday, September 28, 2026
The Weekly Internet Pulse: Week 40, 2026
Real-time traffic insights for the week of September 28, 2026
Total Tracked Traffic
77,807/s
▲ 0.2% vs last week (normal variance)
Most Visited Site
Google
85.0B / mo at 32,343 req/s
Fastest Growing
Developer Tools
+0.9% this week
Internet Health
68 / 100
Elevated Volatility (-1 vs 8-wk avg)
68/ 100
This week's internet health
Elevated Volatility8-Week Rolling Baseline: 69 / 100(-1 vs historical norm)
4 concurrent incidents detected across major content distribution layers.
▸ 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.
Combined rate: 77,807 req/s across all 137 tracked sites.
Structural ShiftSearch & AI Convergence Index
Substitution Ratio: 9% of Search Volume
AI Assistant Velocity
3,251 req/s
+0% WoW
Traditional Search Velocity
36,069 req/s
+0.3% WoW
Query Substitution Share
9%
~1 AI query per 11 search queries
Traditional Search (91.0%)Conversational AI (9%)
Conversational AI query volume held steady at 9.0% of traditional search velocity, demonstrating complementary parallel usage across global audiences.
Top Sites by Traffic This WeekNo significant rank changes in the top 30 this week
#1
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#3
#4
#5
Google85.0B / moHigh Confidence (±9%)
Currently #1 - 85.0B / mo monthly visits.
YouTube34.8B / moHigh Confidence (±9%)
Currently #2 - 34.8B / mo monthly visits.
Facebook15.2B / moHigh Confidence (±9%)
Currently #3 - 15.2B / mo monthly visits.
Instagram6.8B / moHigh Confidence (±9%)
Currently #4 - 6.8B / mo monthly visits.
ChatGPT5.5B / moHigh Confidence (±9%)
Currently #5 - 5.5B / mo monthly visits.
This Week's Internet Stories
Developer Tools
Developer Tools leads growth at +0.9%
The developer tools category saw the largest week-over-week traffic increase across all sectors, with 28 tracked sites generating an estimated 8.9B monthly visits combined.
AI
AI platforms command growing internet share
16 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 up 0.15% this week
Combined traffic across all 137 monitored sites is up from last week, with a current aggregate rate of 77,807 requests per second.
Regional Spotlight
+3.8% WoWAsia-Pacific & Latin America
Mobile Edge & Video Streaming Surge
Mobile traffic across emerging regional nodes drove disproportionate weekend velocity for video and interactive media platforms, counterbalancing seasonal European enterprise lulls.
Traffic by Category
| Category | Sites | vs Last Wk |
|---|---|---|
Search | 7 | +0.3% |
Entertainment | 21 | +0.0% |
Social Media | 13 | +0.0% |
Developer Tools | 28 | +0.9% |
E-Commerce | 17 | +0.0% |
AI Assistants | 16 | +0.0% |
Reference | 12 | +0.0% |
News & Media | 11 | +0.0% |
Finance | 12 | +0.0% |
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