Google reached a milestone on March 28, 2026, with IPv6 carrying 50.1% of traffic to its services, up from 46.33% a year prior. However, other metrics paint a more conservative picture: Cloudflare's Radar shows 40.1% of HTTP requests use IPv6, while APNIC labs found 43.13% of networks IPv6-capable. The measurement reflects IPv6's slow but steady progress toward replacing IPv4's limited address space.
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IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google
Google hit 50% IPv6 traffic on March 28, but conflicting metrics from Cloudflare (40%) and APNIC (43%) suggest adoption remains fragmented across the internet.
Friday, April 17, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline
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