Google IPv6 share at 50 percent resurfaces on the front page

Category: Pulse
Status: discussion
Sources: Google IPv6 statistics, APNIC blog, discussion
Summary: An HN thread (120 points) resurfaced Google's measurement that the share of users reaching Google over native IPv6 first crossed 50 percent on 2026-03-28, at 50.10 percent, up from 46.33 percent a year earlier. The figure fluctuates around the 50 percent mark with weekday and weekend variation rather than holding above it. Other vantage points report lower shares: Cloudflare Radar rates IPv6 at about 40 percent of HTTP requests and APNIC labs measures about 43 percent of networks as IPv6-capable. The milestone dates to March and April 2026, not this week.
Why it matters: Crossing the halfway point in one large operator's traffic is a long-arc deployment marker, but it is not a new event and adoption remains uneven by region and by measurement method.