Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal

This post details how Cloudflare Radar was used to analyze the impact of a total solar eclipse on Internet traffic in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal. It demonstrates the correlation between solar obscuration and HTTP request volume, showing traffic dips that align precisely with maximum obscuration. The analysis uses five-minute buckets of HTTP request volume compared to a normal-day baseline, and a scatter plot to show the relationship between peak solar obscuration and traffic dip. It also presents trend lines for individual countries, highlighting the most dramatic drops in traffic.