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, 1,059 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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Public Peering Remains Important in the Hyperscale Era
Despite massive investments by hyperscalers and CDNs into private backbone infrastructure, public Internet Exchanges (IXPs) remain a vital mechanism for traffic localization, reducing latency, and efficiently reaching local "eyeball" networks.
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Why More Measurement Probes Don't Mean Better Internet Data
Measuring Internet quality does not necessarily require more measurement points but a greater understanding and reporting of anomalies.
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Mobile vs Fixed Fiber Internet: Which is Most Sustainable
Can mobile networks replace fiber-optic broadband networks in a sustainable way, particularly in rural areas, where low population density makes fiber rollout particularly costly?
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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.