The State of Internet Speed
Median download speed, measured browser-side. Only countries with at least 500 tests in the window are ranked.
Lighter teal is faster. The gap between the fastest and slowest countries is more than sixfold.
Across the index, desktop connections test markedly faster than mobile.
Median download speed by network, among those with enough tests to rank.
The SpeedOf.Me (Fastly) edge locations that handled the most tests, by volume.
We report the median (not the mean): internet-speed distributions are right-skewed, so the median is the honest middle.
All tests run on SpeedOf.Me are included, the open website plus apps that embed our API. So that no single integration can skew a country, each source is capped to at most half of that country's sample. A country appears once it clears 500 tests; coverage is First half of 2026.
Each test runs against the best available SpeedOf.Me test server. Where no server is nearby, or international connectivity is restricted, results reflect real-world performance to the best reachable server, which can run lower than purely domestic speeds.
All tests are browser-based and single-stream, run by real people. They reflect our users, not a representative national sample.
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