Enabling Technologies

New technologies are essential to enable the Internet to keep growing, evolving and meeting the changing expectations of users. Enabling technologies contribute to improved Internet scalability, security, trust and availability.

Internet Society Pulse curates information about levels of IPv6 adoption in countries and networks around the world, progress being made towards an encrypted web, indicators of DNSSEC adoption by the registries for country-code domain names, and data on worldwide adoption of TLS1.3 and HTTP/3.

HTTPS

97%

Current percentage of top 1000 websites globally that support HTTPS.

IPv6

49%

Current percentage of top 1000 websites globally that support IPv6.

TLS1.3

86%

Current percentage of top 1000 websites globally that support TLS 1.3.

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Region Data
Region HTTPS IPv6 DNSSEC
Africa 80% 5% 49%
Oceania 92% 13% 57%
Americas 86% 23% 65%
Asia 82% 22% 69%
Europe 94% 23% 86%
Sub-Region Data
Region HTTPS IPv6 DNSSEC
South America 78% 30% 81%
Western Africa 85% 5% 47%
Central America 74% 25% 50%
Eastern Africa 78% 5% 59%
Northern Africa 74% 5% 67%
Middle Africa 86% 11% 0%
Southern Africa 62% 1% 80%
Northern America 96% 29% 100%
Caribbean 95% 18% 52%
Eastern Asia 83% 32% 75%
Southern Asia 77% 31% 67%
South-eastern Asia 84% 21% 91%
Southern Europe 94% 12% 62%
Australia and New Zealand 96% 33% 83%
Melanesia 95% 10% 80%
Micronesia 80% 3% 43%
Polynesia 96% 21% 40%
Central Asia 89% 6% 80%
Western Asia 82% 17% 50%
Eastern Europe 90% 21% 100%
Northern Europe 95% 23% 94%
Western Europe 95% 43% 100%

Global Growth of Enabling Technologies

The charts below show the global growth of key enabling technologies – TLS1.3, HTTP/3, IPv6 and DNSSEC – over time using the latest information from our data partners.

TLS1.3 Permanent link

80%

Many popular Internet applications like e-mail and web browsers use Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure traffic against eavesdropping and against data being tampered with while in transit between clients and servers. Over time, flaws in early versions of TLS have been identified leading to substantial improvements to the protocol.

The latest version, TLS 1.3, provides enhanced security and fewer ways for attackers to find new flaws. TLS 1.3 has also been shown to improve performance, with secure connections taking less time to be established. This helps to demonstrate that optimizations can be made without compromising on security. Improving the security of Internet applications of all kinds is imperative for a healthy and growing Internet.

TLS Version adoption (data source: Mozilla Firefox Telemetry)

HTTP/3 Permanent link

23%

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a fundamental part of the World Wide Web. In addition to powering the web, HTTP is increasingly used to transfer data between Internet-connected devices of all kinds. The latest version of HTTP (HTTP/3) marks quite a radical departure from the past by adopting a completely new transport protocol (QUIC).

The ability for the Internet to embrace HTTP/3 indicates the Internet’s capacity to keep evolving and supporting new applications. As the Internet has matured, deploying new protocols to improve performance and/or security can be difficult. The introduction of a new transport protocol for something as popular and important as HTTP is a real test of the capacity of today’s Internet to continue to support growth and innovation. 

HTTP/3 Adoption (data source: Mozilla Firefox Telemetry)

IPv6 Permanent link

40%

IPv6 is the latest version of the fundamental technology (Internet Protocol) that powers the Internet. The previous version, IPv4, is still in operation on many networks around the world but it can only support an Internet of a few billion devices. By contrast, IPv6 can support an Internet of billions of billions of devices and can provide enough address space to meet the needs of the growing Internet for decades to come. Simply put, the Internet has outgrown its original design and IPv6 is the solution.

Internet Society Pulse presents measurements of IPv6 adoption to raise awareness of the different levels of IPv6 adoption in different countries and networks around the globe, and to encourage greater adoption of this important enabling technology.