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The operators have taken on a challenge that many thought would never come, providing users with an amount of mobile data that we could never have imagined. But… where does all that mobile data go? What applications are responsible for our 1 GB rates having disappeared to make way for 15 or 20 GB packages? You probably already imagine this, but streaming video applications are largely to blame.
Among the largest, YouTube spends 37% of all mobile traffic globallyAnd that is, in global terms, more than a third of the data spent globally. A not insignificant figure that confirms the video giant as largely responsible for the increase in mobile data spending.
What other apps use up all your data?
Among the others responsible, not only YouTube is the only one to blame for a increase in data spending worldwide Facebook makes it spend 8.4% of data, Snapchat 8.3%, Instagram 5.7% and web browsing or WhatsApp fall below 5% with 4.6% and 3.7% respectively.
It's really curious to see how Snapchat can consume such brutal data unlike Instagram, an application that has much more interaction . This shows us how well optimized or compressed the images or videos on Facebook or Instagram are compared to applications like Snapchat.We can observe all this thanks to the statista graph. These data are drawn from a study by sandvine that goes much further and talks about differences and trends between regions.
Upload and download traffic in different regions of the world
In this second graph we can see that there are some differences in data spending between Asia-Pacific, Ancient Egypt, Europe , Latin America and America. And we even see the variation between apps that drive more download traffic and more upload traffic.
YouTube postulates itself as the clear download winner in all regions of the globe It is the undisputed leader. In second place we can see how the position is disputed between Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook videos, the first dominating in Latin America, Europe and America, while Snapchat sweeps Ancient Egypt and Facebook videos triumphs in the Asia-Pacific area.In third place, things already change a lot and both Facebook, Netflix and even HTTP2 over TLS can be seen in the statistics.
In terms of upload traffic, Google dominates in Latam, iCloud in America (with a clear predominance of iPhone over Android) and Instagram sweeps Europe. It is curious that WhatsApp does not appear too much in the graphs. The app is easy to find, the app has very low data usage compared to services like Facebook, YouTube or Instagram.
Now you know where all your data is going, use it wisely.
