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cdnjs served nearly 190 billion requests in July 2020. 🖥
cdnjs used a massive consumption of 3.46 PB of data to serve these requests this month. 📤
That works out to over 111 TB of data and 6.1 billion requests every day (averaged). 🤯
In July, each request to cdnjs (on average) used only 18.22 KB of data. 🔍
Library highlights
As with last month, the top three resources on cdnjs remained the same once again in July, with WebFontLoader
(webfont/1.6.28/webfontloader.js) taking the lead, followed by jQuery (3.3.1/jquery.min.js) and FontAwesome
(4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css) respectively.
WebFontLoader saw an increase in requests this month, going from 5.7 billion to 6.1 billion, a 7% increase. jQuery
also saw an increase in requests, thought the increase in bandwidth consumption for this resource was far more
noticeable with a 64% increase to 291 TB.
The fourth and fifth place resources swapped again this month, with FontAwesome's main font file
(4.7.0/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2) dropping to down to fifth place.
jQuery MouseWheel (3.1.13/jquery.mousewheel.min.js) moved back up to fourth place this month, leaving the top five
resources for cdnjs back how they were in April & May of this year.
Once again, the most popular library overall in the top 100 resources was jQuery, receiving over 12.6 billion
requests in the month for the 11 files in the top 100 and consuming over 507 TB of bandwidth to serve those requests.
In second place overall for libraries was FontAwesome, close behind jQuery, with 11.5 billion requests in July for
the 10 files the library has in the top 100 cdnjs resources. GSAP joins in third place, like last month, with 10.3
billion requests across the 17 files (14 different versions) in the top 100 for July.
Requests & Bandwidth
Top 5 Resources
Total number of requests
The first important stat that we are given is the total number of requests sent to cdnjs.cloudflare.com.
Cloudflare provides this number to us at a 1% sample for the whole month, giving 1,877,736,439 at 1%.
This is 187,773,643,900 when multiplied up to 100%.
We are also given a number of requests for 3 days at a 100% sample, which is 18,911,769,944.
This is 195,421,622,755 when recalculated for the 31 days of July.
To provide the best possible estimate for the entire month, an average of both numbers will be used to generate the
estimate for the final number of requests for the month (75%: 1% month sample data, 25%: 100% 3 day data).
This results in cdnjs serving approximately 189,685,638,614 requests in July.
Nearly 190 billion requests or approximately 6.1 billion requests every single day of July. 📈
This is a nice increase from the 185 billion seen last month, in June, but is still lower than what had been seen in
previous months such as 195 billion in April. The average per day requests of 6.1 billion is very similar to what has
been seen in previous months with 6.2 billion per day in June and 6.1 billion per day in May. Looking at the top
resources for cdnjs this month, 0.3 billion new requests came from WebFontLoader (1.6.28/webfontloader.js) this month as
well as 0.08 billion new requests to jQuery (3.3.1/jquery.min.js).
Total bandwidth usage
Another great stat that Cloudflare has given us again is the bandwidth usage for the cdnjs.cloudflare.com domain.
This number, like total requests, is provided at a 1% sample for the month and in gigabytes: 34,184.21 GB.
This is 3,418,421.0 GB or 3.42 PB when multiplied up to be 100%.
Additionally, a 3 day 100% sample is given by Cloudflare at 345,307.69 GB.
This results in 3,568,179.5 GB or 3.57 PB for the month.
As with the total number of requests and due to the significant difference between the two, both numbers will be used to
calculate an average for the final estimate of bandwidth consumed this month (75%: 1% month sample data, 25%: 100% 3
day data).
This produces the estimate of 3,455,860.6 GB of bandwidth used for this month by cdnjs.
This gives cdnjs a massive bandwidth consumption of 3.46 petabytes of data for requests in July. 🤯
As with the total requests to cdnjs, the bandwidth consumed also increased this month, from the 3.24 PB last
month. Looking at the per day average data, we can also see that this increased in July, with 111 TB per day being
consumed this month and only 108 TB last month. Linking bandwidth consumption with requests shows than on average each
request to cdnjs this month consumed 18.2 KB of bandwidth, also an increase on the 17.6 KB per request in June. Of the
211 TB increase in bandwidth consumption this month, 113 TB (54%) of that can be attributed to increased requests to one
of our top resources, jQuery (3.3.1/jquery.min.js).
Top 100 requested resources
These are provided at a 1% sample for the whole of July.
Bandwidth is measured in gigabytes.
This data, as well as previous months' data, is available in the SQLite data.db file.
