Release notes

• 10 February 2026

  We created the Concentration section of Pulse as a way to track the concentration and consolidation of the Internet services market over the long term. We know that this topic is vital to understanding and advocating for an Internet that’s reliable and available. With this update, our goal is to simplify and streamline the page so we can move it to the new Pulse platform.

• 30 January 2026

  We’ve recently migrated around 700 blog and news pages and re-run the translations, so there are some slight changes if you use the site in Spanish or French—we hope for the better. You might have noticed some ways that Pulse looks and behaves differently. We’ve been migrating everything from our previous Wordpress site to a Wagtail site that uses Django for the back end.

• 20 January 2026

  We’ve updated the Internet Resilience Index with more recent data, and we’ve fixed some bugs caused by a data import that didn’t go as planned.

• 08 January 2026

  We've fixed a couple of bugs in the data displayed on the country reports

• 12 November 2025

  We’ve updated the methodology we use to compile the Internet Society Pulse Internet Resilience Index (IRI). The IRI uses a range of data sources, and we update it on a regular basis. In this release, we’ve updated it to include 2024 data, but we’ve also updated both how we calculate and how we represent that data. The overall result is that the Index now provides data for 180 countries for the entire period from Q1 2019 to Q4 2024.

• 05 November 2025

  Introducing a new version of the Pulse IXP Tracker! The first version of the Tracker was released in July 2024. Since then, we’ve been gathering feedback from users and the broader Internet Society community. In September, we updated how we count IXPs, which reduced the total number reflected in the tracker, but made it more accurate. In this release, we’ve made a big upgrade, with more data, an updated look and feel, improved structure, and more ways for Internet advocates to make the case for IXP development.

• 30 October 2025

  We fixed a bug in how we calculate historical data for IXPs. This led to some inaccuracy in how that data was represented in the IXP tracker, especially visible in the graphs. We've fixed it now and updated how we generate the data each month.

• 22 September 2025

  For each indicator we track, we always aim to use the most reliable, accessible dataset, with data from as many countries as possible, and to keep those consistent across Pulse. We’ve updated the source we use for country-level domain use in the Pulse Country Reports.

• 01 September 2025

  We’ve updated the way we count active IXPs. The Pulse IXP Tracker is designed to show the role of Internet exchange points in a resilient Internet ecosystem, and to build up a picture of the growth and health of the IXP landscape over time. We’ve been rethinking how to we do that in Pulse, starting with improving how we define an active IXP, and, as a result, updating the global total of IXP

• 22 July 2025

  We’ve made some updates to the way we determine the values in the NetLoss Calculator, the tool that helps model the economic impact of Internet shutdowns. These will have changed some of the values you see when you use the calculator, but we believe the updated methodology makes the model stronger.

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