| August 9, 2017

Rank Internet Speeds Around the World with Speedtest Global Index

We’re pleased to announce Speedtest Global IndexTM, a monthly ranking of global mobile and fixed broadband speeds. At Ookla, our mission is to make the internet faster by providing data and insights on real-world internet speeds. As part of that mission, we’re making Speedtest data available to you in a new, interactive format.

Based on the billions of consumer-initiated tests taken all over the world using Speedtest, this resource displays the latest information on which countries have the fastest mobile and fixed broadband and which have the slowest.

How you can use Speedtest Global Index

The home page gives you a quick overview of how countries rank, how that rank has changed in the last month, and the download speed that rank is based on.

Top 5 countries

Click on an individual country to see 12 months’ worth of data including historic download and upload speeds over mobile and fixed broadband.

Use these country pages to spot spikes and dips in internet performance on a country level. Uncover trends and detect potential storylines.

Mouseover a dot on the trendline to see the average speed and worldwide ranking for that particular month, giving you the depth of data you need to tell richer stories.

Your source for data on global internet speeds

We hope you’ll come to see Speedtest Global Index as a go-to resource for global internet performance data. Take this data and use it to tell stories that help make the internet faster in your home country and around the world. Feel free to cite Speedtest Global Index as a source and link to it as needed.

We’ll update Speedtest Global Index with data based on the previous month at the beginning of every month so you’ll have fresh statistics and an early eye on new developments.



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| January 9, 2017

When Easy isn’t Enough

Introducing desktop apps to make using Speedtest faster than ever

Discovering your computer’s internet speed using Speedtest has never taken very long. Open your browser, type in Speedtest.net, then click “Go!” and await your results. Those steps get you pretty quick answers about your download and upload speeds. But we live in a world of text expanders, ordering buttons and digital assistants that seem to anticipate your every question. Who has time for pretty quick?

You want fast. We want fast.

So we created free desktop apps for Mac and Windows to get you the answers you want about your internet — fast. Once you download and install the app, just fire it up and click “Go”. By embedding Speedtest on your desktop (and skipping all that typing), we can save you almost all the effort of figuring out your download and upload speeds. More importantly, we can save you time.

This embedded experience is specifically designed to be fast, clear and easy to use. It’s simply the data you need with the least fuss possible.

Speedtest everywhere

Our mission at Speedtest by Ookla is to make the internet faster by providing data on real-world internet speeds. With over 9 billion tests and counting, we want to meet you where you are — on the web, on your phone and TV, in your browser and now on your desktop.

Download the Speedtest desktop app for Mac or Windows. It’s never been faster or easier to take a Speedtest.

Ookla retains ownership of this article including all of the intellectual property rights, data, content graphs and analysis. This article may not be quoted, reproduced, distributed or published for any commercial purpose without prior consent. Members of the press and others using the findings in this article for non-commercial purposes are welcome to publicly share and link to report information with attribution to Ookla.