Understand the Internet—and Its Dependencies
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Actionable Insight
Key findings and trends are explained, including business impacts, and recommendations are tailored to provide next steps for your business.
Metric-based Research
We break the mold of survey-based research with an unbiased and metric-based perspective on Internet and network performance.
Expert Analysis
Results are verified and analyzed by a team of subject matter experts to ensure peer-review and corroboration of the analysis.
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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.
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.