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Mirrors generating most traffic in 2024

The total outgoing traffic of ftp.fau.de increased from 8.51 PiB in 2023 to 10.06 PiB in 2024, an increase of only 18%.

Rank Mirror Traffic 2024 in TB Rank/Traffic 2023 (for comparison)
1 fdroid (Free and Open-Source Android app repository) 1794 1 / 1639
2 mint/iso (Linux distribution, disc images) 1381 2 / 1040
3 kiwix (offline Wikipedia) 1106 3 / 1021
4 fedora (Linux distribution) 438 5 / 456
5 opensuse (Linux distribution) 354 7 / 244
6 almalinux (Linux distribution) 353 28 / 66
7 epel (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) 282 12 / 192
8 cdn.media.ccc.de (recordings of IT-related events) 273 26 / 77
9 macports 263 27 / 68
10 ubuntu 259 11 / 200

The percentage of IPv6 traffic increased slightly to 29% (2.88 PiB), after 26% in 2023, 26% in 2022, 27% in 2021, 27% in 2020, 25% in 2019, 22% in 2018, 22% in 2017, 14% in 2016 and 11% in 2015.

There are quite a few new entries in the top 10 list – 5 to be exact:

  • almalinux
  • epel
  • cdn.media.ccc.de
  • macports
  • ubuntu

They replaced

  • centos (which we stopped mirroring in the middle of the year, and which dropped to rank 21 in its final year)
  • lineageos (now rank 11, despite traffic increasing from 217 to 246 TB)
  • qtproject (now rank 12)
  • gimp (now rank 15)
  • eclipse (now rank 16)

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