Where Do Blair Users Spend Their Time on the Internet?

Two years ago when we analyzed internet traffic at Blair, the amount of traffic going to Facebook was larger than the sum of all the other sites put together.  Now Facebook is a distant follower to other sites.  The big change in internet use since then has been towards sites with video content.  People spend a lot of time watching TV shows and movies online.  People also use real time streaming video applications, such as Skype.  The amount of bandwidth needed to support this has increased substantially and quickly.  In two weeks we will be tripling our available bandwidth, which is consistent with what we are seeing happen at other boarding schools.  The graph below shows the top web domains visited by Blair users in the last 24 hours.