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Internet Performance Research
A measurement-based study of the availability and performance of the Internet and key app delivery networks before and during COVID-19, including those of public cloud, networks, CDN, and DNS providers.
Cloud Performance Research
A metric-based comparative study of network performance and connectivity across AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM and Alibaba Cloud. Analysis covers multi-cloud architectures, US broadband ISPs, the AWS Global Accelerator and more.
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Digital Experience Performance Research
A comparative analysis of web, infrastructure and network performance metrics from the top 20 U.S. retail, travel and media websites.
Global DNS Performance Research
A point-in-time study that measures the performance of three DNS infrastructures: managed DNS providers, public resolvers and global root servers.
Key Research Findings
Internet Performance
Despite the sudden change in traffic flows brought on by the pandemic, the Internet has held up well, with no systemic performance degradation.
Cloud Performance
Architectural and connectivity differences between the measured cloud providers result in varied levels of Internet exposure.
Digital Experience
DNS Performance
Cloudflare, Google and OpenDNS perform best across nearly every region covered, out of the fifteen public resolvers we tested.