# Billions of requests: Black Friday-Cyber Monday 2025

By Steven Van · 2025-12-02

Vercel handled 115.8 billion requests over BFCM 2025, a 33.6% year-over-year increase, with no configuration changes.

From November 28 through December 1, [Vercel](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/tools/vercel>)'s platform handled more than 115.8 billion requests, up 33.6% year over year. Traffic dipped on Thanksgiving, surged on Black Friday, stayed elevated through the weekend, then built into a second wave on Cyber Monday, all without configuration changes or manual intervention.

- **518,027** peak requests per second

- **6,120,247** deployments shipped over the weekend

- **24,086,391** requests routed through AI Gateway for search, recommendations and support

- **43,213,555,901** Fluid compute invocations, scaling automatically with demand

- **56,926,096,915** requests served from cache

- **1,809,912,897** ISR reads and **1,517,476,504** ISR writes, keeping catalogs and pricing current without redeploys

- **7,507,223,309** firewall actions, **415,683,895** bots blocked, and **2,408,122,336** humans verified

The [announcement](<https://vercel.com/blog/bfcm-2025>) reports the United States led activity with over 40.7 billion requests, followed by Germany, the United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Singapore and Japan, with high activity across all 20 global regions.

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[Original source](<https://vercel.com/blog/bfcm-2025>)

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