Tux Machines

Record Traffic in Gemini Protocol

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 12, 2025,

updated Dec 12, 2025

Some days ago we spoke of "Growing Interest in Gemini Protocol", seeing that more people nowadays access Tux Machines via newer and lighter (hence also faster) protocols. This was good news and more of what we had hoped for (at the beginning).

Maybe owing to a large volume of pages, our capsule's "demand" grew a lot and we serve about 30,000 requests per day (this week). That's just for Gemini Protocol, not Web requests.

According to this new and informal survey, most people use a GUI for Gemini browsing:

Gemini Protocol ranks

Gemini Protocol: GUI wins - Do you browse the Geminispace with a GUI, TUI, or CLI client?

This means that Gemini users aren't just "super-geeks" anymore; they're ordinary people. █