Ipoque, a part-time researcher of Internet activity and trends headquartered in Leipzig, Germany, recently released the findings of a study conducted between August and September 2007, in which it observed Internet traffic in five regions of the world, to establish an overview of the Internet’s current state.
Three petabytes of anonymous data representing over one million users in Australia, Eastern Europe, Germany, the Middle East and Southern Europe were analyzed as part of the study.
According to the study, P2P is still producing more traffic in the Internet then all other applications combined. Its average proportion during the measurement period regionally varies between 49% in the Middle East and 83% in Eastern Europe.
By studying the complete protocol distribution for Germany and the Middle East; the results found that in both regions, Web browsing accounts for the the second-most traffic with a share of 26% in the Middle East and 10% in Germany; not including any audio or video streaming content.
Media streaming content ranks third in Germany with a proportion of about 8%; In the Middle East it is negligible with less than 0.1%. Possible reasons include lower-speed Internet access and less media-rich content on local-language Web sites.
The third position in the Middle East and the fourth in Germany is taken by direct download links file sharing websites such as RapidShare.com and MegaUpload.com; 62 of these one-click file hosting services were studied, and they account for nearly 9% of the Internet traffic in the Middle East and over 4% in Germany.
When it comes to VoIP (Voice over IP), the results show that 30% of all monitored Internet users in Germany use Skype. In the Middle East, the number is only 7%; SIP follows far behind with only 1% users in Germany and in the Middle East; as for other systems, the numbers are negligible.
# Source: ipoque Internet Study 2007
# Via: Mashable
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