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 13 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, 1,063 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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Internet Market Competition in 2026
28 countries jumped to a higher market competition rating between May 2025 and 2026, while nine countries slipped from a higher to a lower competition rating.
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A Case For Using Large Language Models to Automate Internet Measurement Research
A new Internet measurement system, ArachNet, uses Large Language Model (LLM) agents to automate the process, reducing the time to analyse the causes and impact of disruptions.
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Common Threads: Peering into Internet Resilience
Participants at the PIMF Jamaica event identified the challenges of connecting people in the Caribbean and proposed solutions with measurable components to track the impact of their strategies.
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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.