Thank you for your donations over the New Year holidays, your material support, and your participation in the gift survey! Here are the results of GIGAZINE's access analysis for January 2026!



Thank you to everyone who donated to the GIGAZINE Winter Giveaway held over the New Year holidays! Thanks to the material and financial support from our dear readers, GIGAZINE's servers are running hard.

Financial support #1 (one-time donation)
https://gigazine.net/news/about/


Financial support 2 (monthly or annual regular payments)
https://gigazine.net/club/


We've also received a lot of help from the Amazon wish list with material support, such as instant coffee, tea, and detergent, and in particular the container carts used to manage editorial equipment and the infrared camera modules that can be used during reviews, which are extremely useful for future article creation. Thank you so much!

GIGAZINE editorial department wish list
https://www.amazon.co.jp/hz/wishlist/ls/378VT986Z3V8T


The results of the survey that was completed when applying for the giveaway are summarized below. The raw data from over 5,000 people is quite interesting. The survey results will be published weekly, so please look forward to it.

What kind of AI do GIGAZINE readers use? We conducted a survey - GIGAZINE



Have you ever used online courses or learning services? Do you program? We asked GIGAZINE readers in a survey - GIGAZINE



What are people checking out on Amazon? We investigated what GIGAZINE readers usually search for on Amazon - GIGAZINE



GIGAZINE readers' internet connection method: wireless? Wired? We also asked about dissatisfaction with Wi-Fi routers - GIGAZINE



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

◆January 2026
Number of access requests: 163.2 million
Page views: 52.65 million (an increase of 2.1 million)
Number of unique users: 18.45 million (an increase of 410,000)
Transfer volume: 13.820TB

*Measurement results by Cloudflare.

Of the total transfer volume, the volume of multimedia files such as images was approximately 11.799TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 2.021TB.

In addition, the number of articles created in January 2026 was 565.

Next, the top 10 most popular articles in January 2026. These are the results of an analysis using Google Analytics.

1. Parkinson's disease affects thousands of American farmers, and numerous lawsuits are being filed accusing the deadly pesticide paraquat of causing it.



2nd place: Tesla's 460 billion yen contract with a Korean battery manufacturer was reduced to 1.2 million yen.



3. NVIDIA has been found to have promised to provide 500TB of data from the pirate site 'Anna's Archive'



4th place: Report of the observation of a 'star that cannot be explained by existing physics' 730 light years away



5th place: What is the best liar when we make AIs play a game where betrayal is essential?



6. Research shows that certain pesticides may increase the risk of Parkinson's disease by more than 2.5 times



7. China is preparing to launch a supergravity device that generates 1,900 times the gravity and enables 'space-time compression.'



8. LED lighting may have adverse health effects due to a lack of infrared light.



9th place: What is 'PS2Recomp,' a project that recompiles PlayStation 2 games so that they can run on PC?



10th place: Finally, ChatGPT will no longer support 'GPT-4o' and 'GPT-4.1'



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

1st place: Chrome : 63.21% (up 1.93% points)
2nd place: Safari : 19.58% (up 0.55% points)
3rd place: Edge : 6.52% (up 0.14% points)
4th place: Firefox : 4.61% (up 0.07% points)
5th place: Safari (in-app) : 3.21% (2.75%pt decrease)
6th place: Android Webview : 1.89% (0.01%pt decrease)
7th place: Opera : 0.50% (up 0.03 percentage points)
8th place: Samsung Internet : 0.21% (no change)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.12% (up 0.02% points)
10th place: (not set) : 0.07% (0.02% pt increase)

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)
9th place: livedoor blog (10th place last month)
8th place: MSN (8th place last month)
10th place: ChatGPT (9th place last month)

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

1st place: GIGAZINE
2nd place: AI
3rd place: Gift
4th place: yt-dlp
5th place: Rubber
6th place: Anime
7th place: Space
8th place: Donations
9th place: White Black Asian
10th place: linux

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Also, if you point out an error in an article, it would be extremely helpful if you could provide the source address, as this would make it easier to verify. Even if you point out even a small typo, I would be very grateful if you would contact me with something like, 'It says this here, but maybe it should actually be this?'

In addition, we would be happy if you could send us your thoughts on each article , so we hope you will continue to support GIGAZINE in the future.

Finally, thanks to the material and financial support of our dear readers, GIGAZINE's servers are running hard. Even if you can help with just 1 yen, it would be a great help!

- Material support (Amazon wish list)
https://www.amazon.co.jp/hz/wishlist/ls/378VT986Z3V8T

Financial support 1 (one-time donation)
https://gigazine.net/news/about/

・Financial support No. 2 (monthly or annual regular payments)
https://gigazine.net/club/

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