It’s that time of the year again, when we shine the light on you, our readers, and share a few insights into how you have been using Pulse.
Following 2024, the most popular feature of Pulse in 2025 was the Blog, which accounted for nearly one in six views (17%). This was followed by the Pulse IXP Tracker (15%), which saw a big increase in usage following its recent refresh, and the Pulse Internet Shutdown Tracker (13%).
In terms of the Blog, the five most viewed posts in 2025 varied from major Internet shutdowns and outages to the adoption of new technologies and measurements:
- Iraq to Shut Down Internet During 2025 Exam Period
- Lessons from the Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Outage: A Resilience Perspective
- Gabon, Georgia, and Papua New Guinea Country Code Domains Go Secure
- Visualizing The Rise of Hypergiants
- Bandwidth is Dead. Long Live Latency
The last two of these were written by two of our growing list of guest authors from civil society and the Internet measurement community. The growth and success of the blog have been largely thanks to our guest authors and community, who share their analysis of the availability, evolution, and resilience of the Internet.
Other Top Guest Posts:
- The New Digital Divide
- Why IPv6 Adoption is Stalled: The Behavioral Science Behind Internet Infrastructure Change
- Censorship and Sanctions Impacting Iran’s Internet, Report
While many of our overall views originated from users located in these afflicted countries, around 55% of our users are based in China, the USA, the UK, India, and France. Granted, many of these views may be from users in other countries who are using Virtual Private Networks.
Finally, half of the top 10 most viewed Pulse Country Reports were countries in the Asia Pacific region.
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