The internet has a new king, and it’s called TikTok. According to CloudFlare’s traffic measurements, the Chinese social network rose from seventh to first place in 2021, winning the throne of the Web from Google. In other words, TikTok now generates more traffic than all the services in the google.com domain combined: the search engine, mapping, translation, news, photos, office automation, etc. It’s pretty amazing when you think about it. And it shows the level of popularity that TikTok has reached around the world.

This success must also make Mark Zuckerberg turn green with jealousy. The domain of Facebook is now moving from second to third place overall and the company can no longer really boast of being the number one social network on the planet, although it continues to far outpace the Chinese rival in numbers. users.

In terms of video streaming, 2021 was marked by the Netflix-YouTube duel. It was won by the first, even though YouTube managed to climb to the top of the overall standings exceptionally for a day. CloudFlare believes the record stems from the famous video of a fitness class in Myanmar’s capital, where the coup is seen taking place in the background. A sequence that instantly became cult and has toured the planet in the form of memes.

Finally, note the breakthrough of Signal and WeChat in messaging. The first obviously took advantage of the controversy around the new WhatsApp terms of use in January to attract a lot of new users. The rise of the second remains, for the moment, unexplained.