[HN Gopher] UK election day 2024: traffic trends and attacks on ...
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       UK election day 2024: traffic trends and attacks on political
       parties
        
       Author : emot
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2024-07-05 18:08 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | jmkni wrote:
       | As somebody from Northern Ireland, I'm really interested in the
       | fact that NI had the biggest drop in traffic as opposed to
       | England/Scotland/Wales after 4PM.
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       | Is this just on that one day or is this normal for NI after this
       | time? Also what is the impliciation being made here?
        
         | basil-rash wrote:
         | It's all as compared to the week prior, so the take away would
         | be that folks from NI are slightly more likely to be offline on
         | election day after 4pm than folks from other areas, where
         | they're more likely to be offline on election day slightly
         | earlier in the day. Idk what more there is to say about that.
         | 
         | The whole piece is more of a "look we're cloudflare: we process
         | a lot of traffic and can analyze data!" marketing piece than
         | anything.
        
         | lifeisstillgood wrote:
         | My guess - US holiday. The time for the drop in traffic chimes
         | with the usual period we have to jump on Trans Atlantic zoom
         | calls. So this day there was a lack of those calls and hence a
         | drop in normal traffic. NI is worse because it's the hub for UK
         | and even European trans Atlantic traffic.
         | 
         | It's hard to say as this is not measuring packets but weird
         | sort of CDN proxy effects and I am just guessing :-)
         | 
         | But I suspect it's not because Putins elections trolls forgot
         | about Belfast for an afternoon :-)
        
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