Internet Traffic: Growing or Slowing?

Data Center Knowledge on Internet growth:

>>"In spite of the widespread claims of continuing and even accelerating growth rates, Internet traffic growth appears to be decelerating." That's the verdict from Andrew Odlyzko of the University of Minnesota, a specialist in Internet metrics who monitors more than 100 public sources of web traffic data for the university's MINTS project.

To be clear, total traffic isn't decreasing, as it continues to grow at a rate of about 50 percent per year. But that rate of growth is slower than it has been, meaning that Internet traffic growth is not accelerating, but moderating.

As we noted in June, Odlyzko has seen traffic growth slowing in mature markets like Japan and Hong Kong. Will the US follow this pattern? Stay tuned.