Internet Speed Reports
Findings on the state of real-world internet speed worldwide, built from millions of real, in-browser speed tests run on SpeedOf.Me. Each edition distils one reporting period into a single story: who leads, who lags, and what everyday connections actually deliver.
The State of Internet Speed, H1 2026
Global median download is 33.9 Mbps. The fastest and slowest countries, the desktop-vs-mobile gap, and a world speed map, from millions of browser tests across 119 countries.
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Explore the sortable country ranking, world map and device breakdown in the Internet Speed Atlas, always showing the latest edition.
What's inside each report
Every edition answers the same questions with fresh data, so periods stay comparable:
- The world ranking: median download, upload and latency for every country with enough tests to qualify.
- A world speed map you can read at a glance, with every country linked to its own profile page.
- The desktop-vs-mobile gap, and how much of the world's testing now happens on phones.
- Breakdowns by operating system and by the most-used test servers.
- The fastest measured ISPs, worldwide and per country, which also power the Verified Fastest ISP badges.
Where the numbers come from
Everything is measured, never modelled. Each figure is the median (p50) of real, single-stream speed tests run in the browser on SpeedOf.Me against neutral CDN servers on the open internet, not servers inside any ISP's own network: what we call Real-World Speed. Medians resist outliers, a country is ranked only once it clears a minimum sample, and no single integration can contribute more than half of a country's tests.
The same ruler is applied everywhere, which is why our numbers read lower than peak-rate speed tests but stay comparable country to country. If a figure here differs from a multi-stream, on-net index, both can be right: they answer different questions.
How the reports relate to the Atlas
The Internet Speed Atlas is the living view of the same dataset: a sortable ranking, country profiles and the world map, refreshed with each edition. A report is that period's snapshot with the story attached. For your own country's detail, its fastest ISPs, device split and latency, start from the Atlas and open the country page.
Reuse the data
The country table behind the latest edition is published as plain files, data.csv and data.json, under a CC BY 4.0 license. Quote it, chart it or build on it; just credit SpeedOf.Me with a link. Figures on report and country pages always match the downloadable data, so any number you cite can be checked at the source.