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 10 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, 1,078 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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The Internet Can Fail Without Going Down: How can millions of speed tests help us see performance problems?
A new methodology can uncover significant widespread network degradation events that were essentially invisible to traditional outage observatories.
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Who is Moving the IPv6 Needle?
According to the August 2026 IPv6Matrix crawl of more than 5.3 million website hosts, 54.27% now support both IPv4 and IPv6 (dual-stack).
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Tracking Southeast Asia’s Internet Concentration Problem
A Pulse Research Fellowship study shows that Southeast Asia is almost entirely dependent on U.S. Content Delivery Network providers, while IP infrastructure provision is relatively more diverse and localized.
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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.
