It appears that general browsing trends went up year after year for pretty much every month we have data for. Some months, up to 45% more traffic from the previous year. I might be misreading this chart, but this looks like a bigger increase than just 12% over multiple years.
Figure 2. ISP monthly normalized downstream traffic change during the COVID-19 pandemic with percentage increase compared to the previous year.
It appears that general browsing trends went up year after year for pretty much every month we have data for. Some months, up to 45% more traffic from the previous year. I might be misreading this chart, but this looks like a bigger increase than just 12% over multiple years.
https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/7/253468-a-year-in-lockdown/fulltext
Thanks for pulling the data