How the UEFA Euro 2024 football games are impacting local Internet traffic

Cloudflare analyzes how UEFA Euro 2024 matches affected Internet traffic across Europe, finding an average 6% drop during national team games, with some countries seeing larger declines and a few increases; social media usage typically spikes at halftime, while categories like AI tools, ecommerce, productivity, and business services tend to dip. The post also notes several application-layer DDoS attacks in Germany during the tournament, including one against a translation tool that reached 105 million requests per hour and peaked at 1.74 million requests per second, alongside specifics of Germany’s opening match-day traffic dynamics.