What is the identity of the button added to the end of GIGAZINE articles? We are now publishing the results of a valuable survey from GIGAZINE readers, and here are the access analytics results for GIGAZINE for May 2026.
Announcement #1: We've added a 'Set GIGAZINE as Google's preferred source' button, a button to copy the article title and URL, and links to GIGAZINE's official
When viewed on a smartphone browser, it looks like this, with buttons appearing at the end of the article body and between related articles.
The most notable feature is the ability to prioritize GIGAZINE in Google search results. However, since we've implemented it, we're unsure if it will actually work correctly, so we'd like you to test it by clicking on it on your PC or tapping on it on your smartphone! If you find any bugs, please let us know using the form below.
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Announcement #2. The GIGAZINE Summer Giveaway , which ran from July 24th, ended on August 9th, 2026 at 11:59 PM! Approximately 3,500 readers participated. We have completed the drawing and contacted the winners via email, and are currently shipping out the prizes. We plan to hold another giveaway during the New Year's holiday season, so if you didn't win this time, please try again! Following GIGAZINE's official social media accounts, accessible from the end of this article, is recommended so you don't miss out on future giveaways.
Additionally, we've published an article containing some of the survey results from those who participated in this giveaway. You can check out survey data that you wouldn't normally see, such as hardware usage like PC configurations and AI usage rates. We plan to continue adding results every week.
GIGAZINE readers' PCs are most commonly 'custom-built' at 20.5%, and we conducted a thorough investigation into CPUs, graphics cards, motherboards, memory, and storage - GIGAZINE
So, here is some data that may be helpful when placing an ad on GIGAZINE .
◆July 2026
Number of access requests: 173.09 million
Page views: 58.45 million (an increase of 7.43 million)
Unique users: 14.98 million (an increase of 6.41 million)
Data transfer: 14.977TB
*These are measurement results from Cloudflare.
Of the total data transfer volume, multimedia files such as images accounted for approximately 12.746 TB, while HTML, RSS, and other similar files accounted for approximately 2.231 TB.
Additionally, the number of articles created in July 2026 was 731.
Next, here are the top 10 most popular articles in July 2026. This is based on analysis results from Google Analytics.
1st Place: A case where a seemingly kind new employee offering to help shovel snow ended up having their network administrator privileges stolen.
7th Place: What sea animal makes even the king of the ocean, the orca, run away just from hearing its cry?
So, next, to explore the trends among GIGAZINE readers, let's look at them by browser used, as follows:
1st place: Chrome : 61.62% (1.33%pt decrease)
2nd place: Safari : 18.14% (0.03%pt decrease)
3rd place: Edge : 7.35% (up 0.11 percentage points)
4th place: Firefox : 5.83% (up 0.33 percentage points)
5th place: Safari (in-app) : 3.78% (up 0.45 percentage points)
6th place: Android Webview : 2.11% (up 0.29 percentage points)
7th place: Opera : 0.54% (up 0.07 percentage points)
8th place: Samsung Internet : 0.25% (up 0.01 percentage points)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.20% (up 0.07 points)
10th place: (not set) : 0.09% (0.01% pt increase)
Next, here are the top 10 websites that link to GIGAZINE and generate the most traffic to GIGAZINE. Search engines have been excluded.
1st place: X (1st place last month)
2nd place: Hatena Bookmark (2nd place last month)
3rd place: Google News (3rd place last month)
4th place: SmartNews (4th place last month)
5th place: Facebook (5th place last month)
6th place: DuckDuckGo (6th place last month)
7th place: MSN (8th place last month)
8th place: Bluesky (7th place last month)
9th place: togetter (9th place last month)
10th place: Threads (Not ranked last month)
Next, here are the top 10 phrases that led people to GIGAZINE through search:
1st place: AI
2nd place: yt-dlp
3rd place: youtube
4th place: Anime
5th place: Rubber
6th place: Presents
7th place: Space
8th place: Self-host
9th place: Downloads
10th place: iPhone
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Also, if you point out an error in an article, it would be extremely helpful if you could provide the address of the source that supports it, as this makes verification much easier. Even for the smallest typo or grammatical error, we would greatly appreciate it if you could contact us with something like, 'It says this here, but isn't it actually this?'
We would also love to receive your feedback on each article , so please continue to support GIGAZINE in the future.
Finally, thanks to the material and financial support from our dear readers, GIGAZINE's servers are working hard to keep going. Even just one yen would be greatly appreciated!
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