
In a recent report, it was shown that over 50% of Egypt's Internet users are the youth of the nation (18-34 year old) and that the "social media scene has quickly gained ground" among its users. Zscaler was servicing a number of web transactions for customers from Egypt before the routes went dark. I wanted to share some stats on what we were seeing in terms of web usage up until the plug was pulled January 27 at 22:34 UTC.
The following chart shows the daily percentage of the week's web transactions from/to Egypt clients/servers that traversed our cloud from January 24th - 28th. The y-axis is the percentage of transactions from all Egypt transactions we observed from Jan. 24- 28. Our data showed a 68% percent increase in transactions to Egypt web servers on January 26th - the spike was most noticeable in the News/Media category of web servers for people using Egyptian news sources to obtain information on the protests. Then we see the decline and eventual drop to (near) zero on January 28th for Egyptian web transactions (client and server). Taking a look at the web server transactions for the 28th showed www.egyptse.com, the Egyptian Stock Exchange, (217.139.183.2 - NOOR network) remaining live and visited by customers - as others have noted, this remains the only live Egypt network.

Among the Egyptian websites that were visited on the 27th, that are no longer accessible include:
- *.masrawy.com (41.178.51.93)
- *.ahram.org.eg
- *.arabia.msn.com (41.178.51.12)
- www.egynews.net -> productnews.link.net (41.178.51.29)
- egypt.usaid.gov (196.219.223.215)
- algomhuria.net.eg
- ahram.org.eg
- *.gov.eg sites
On January 27th, prior to the shutdown, this is the breakdown in web surfing activity that was being seen from client traffic originating in Egypt.

The top sites visited by Egypt web clients on the 27th include:
- Facebook related (42.02% total)
- *.facebook.com (25.36%)
- *.fbcdn.net (16.66%)
- *.aljazeera.net (6.63%)
- Google (6.96%)