Thank you for all your applications for the GIGAZINE Winter Gift Giveaway! GIGAZINE access analysis results for December 2025 announced

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So, here are some useful data to help you advertise on GIGAZINE :

◆December 2025
Number of access requests: 149.83 million
Page views: 51.05 million (down 5.64 million)
Number of unique users: 18.04 million (an increase of 3.33 million)
Transfer volume: 15.935TB
*Measurement results by Cloudflare.

Of the total transfer volume, the volume of multimedia files such as images was approximately 13.796TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 2.139TB.

In addition, the number of articles created in December 2025 was 565.

Next, the top 10 most popular articles in December 2025. These are the results of an analysis using Google Analytics.

1st place: Chinese-made KVMs are found to have hidden microphones, and there are also signs that they are communicating with servers based in China

2nd place: When an AI was put in charge of running a snack vending machine, it started distributing PlayStations for free and stocking fish, resulting in a huge deficit

3rd place: Gmail email address '@gmail.com' can now be changed

4. Experts call for an end to outdated security advice like 'avoid public Wi-Fi,' 'don't scan QR codes,' 'don't charge devices through public USB ports,' and 'change your passwords regularly.'

5. The F-35 fighter jet uses a special version of C++ that prohibits exception handling and recursive functions.

6th place: When GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek were all asked to trade stocks for eight months with a budget of $100,000, which performed best?

7. 256 million songs have been stolen from Spotify and all of their metadata will be made public on the pirate site 'Anna's Archive,' with approximately 300TB of music files also planned to be made public.

8th: Research results show that women's sexual desire is strongly affected by stress

9th place: 14 years after it was said that IPv4 addresses had run out, what will happen to IPv4 in 2025?

10th: Is it possible to somehow play CDs on the PlayStation 5, which does not support CDs?

So, next, to find out the trends of GIGAZINE readers, we look at the following by browser used.

1st place: Chrome : 61.28% (up 1.71% points)
2nd place: Safari : 19.02% (1.81%pt decrease)
3rd place: Edge : 6.38% (0.76%pt decrease)
4th place: Safari (in-app) : 5.96% (up 2.10 percentage points)
5th place: Firefox : 4.53% (0.73%pt decrease)
6th place: Android Webview : 1.89% (0.38%pt decrease)
7th place: Opera : 0.48% (0.08%pt decrease)
8th place: Samsung Internet : 0.21% (0.02 decrease%pt)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.10% (0.04 decrease%pt)
10th place: (not set) : 0.05% (0.03 increase%pt)

Next, the top 10 sites that linked to GIGAZINE and had the most traffic to GIGAZINE are as follows. Search engines are excluded.

1st place: X (2nd place last month)
2nd place: Google News (1st place last month)
3rd place: Hatena Bookmark (3rd place last month)
4th place: SmartNews (4th place last month)
5th place: Facebook (5th place last month)
6th place: Bluesky (7th place last month)
7th place: DuckDuckGo (6th last month)
8th place: MSN (8th place last month)
9th place: livedoor blog (10th place last month)
10th place: TBN17 (9th place last month)

Next, the top 10 phrases that led to GIGAZINE through searches are as follows:

1st place: GIGAZINE
2nd place: Anime
3rd place: AI
4th place: Gift
5th place: List of new anime
6th place: Winter anime
7th place: Rubber
8th place: Memory
9th place:yt-dlp
10th place: youtube

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