Cloudflare Radar 2025 Internet Trends Report: AI Growth and Social Media Shifts
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Summary
Cloudflare's 2025 Year in Review report analyzes global internet trends, showing continued growth in generative AI with Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini emerging as main competitors to ChatGPT. Social media dynamics shifted with Snapchat outperforming X/Twitter, while Roblox maintained dominance in the metaverse. The report features interactive data visualizations tracking internet traffic patterns and service usage worldwide, with Google remaining the top-ranked service overall.
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· 4 pulledGenerative AI continued its meteoric rise in 2025, as Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini are now the main rivals to ChatGPT.
On social media, after the juggernauts Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, Snapchat is now outperforming X, while in the metaverse, Roblox still holds its crown.
Our category-specific lists represent the zeitgeist of Internet activity throughout the year and include both familiar and unexpected names.
Overall, Google remains at the top of the ranking, but Instagram, and YouTube climbed in o
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