The data we need to build the Internet we want
Country reports
As of 2025, 73% of the world's population is online. But a connection is just the start.
Internet shutdowns
People can be cut off from the Internet by their own governments. We're currently following 11 ongoing shutdowns around the world.
Internet resilience
Or users can experience unreliable connections, or regular outages. That's why we track Internet resilience in 179 countries.
IXP Tracker
Around the world, 1,079 Internet exchange points are contributing to that resilience by making the Internet faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
Technical and policy choices shape the Internet. Internet Society Pulse helps make sure those choices are informed by data.
Read more on the Pulse blog
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Cost of Access: When the Internet Goes Dark, People Become the Network
On 23 July 2026, central Delhi became an unexpected experiment in communications resilience.
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Do RPKI Updates Affect the Internet's Stability?
As RPKI adoption continues to grow, understanding its impact on BGP performance becomes increasingly important.
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Measuring ccTLD Growth
Since 2019, eight ccTLDs have gained more than 1 million registrations, while one has lost more than 28 million.
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Internet Society Pulse curates data from trusted sources, to measure the availability, evolution and resilience of the global Internet. We draw on the most recent and most representative data we have access to. See our list of data partners and find even more data in the Pulse API.
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Meet the community
Events
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Talanoa Dialogue: Talking the Pulse of the Pacific’s Internet Resilience
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Internet Frontiers: Navigating Data to Inform Public Discourse
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Online Workshop: Internet Frontiers, Navigating Data to Inform Public Discourse
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Pulse Internet Measurement Forum, Washington D.C.
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Internet Measurement Day: Bucharest