Who uses the Internet, for what, and when?
I found this fascinating quote today:
In the first half of this post, we showed unlike European Internet traffic which peaks in the early evening and then drops off until the next day’s business hours, US Internet traffic reaches its peak at 11pm EDT and then stays relatively high until 3am in the morning.
The IM graph above shows traffic reaches 80% of peak by 10am and stays above 80% until midnight (with a 5pm EDT peak — perhaps related to millions of users making dinner plans). Interestingly, email exhibits a very different pattern and plummets by more than 30% immediately after 5pm EDT.
Source: asert.arbornetworks.com, Arbor Networks: Security to the Core, Aug 2009
You should read the whole article: http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/08/the-internet-after-dark-part-ii/
