Akamai’s State Of The Internet Report: India Ranked 115 In Average Connection Speeds
The latest quarterly ‘State of the Internet’ report brought out by the Nasdaq-listed Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) Technologies, Inc., ranks India at 115 among the 223 countries measured in terms of average connection speeds. India’s average connection speed is 772Kbps while the global average is 1.5Mbps. South Korea, which ranks No.1, had average speeds of 15 Mbps.
The number of unique IPs from India grew 42.91% year-on-year, to 2.63 million, a figure that puts India at No. 20 globally. Globally, the number of unique IPs grew 20%. The US is ranked No. 1, with 114.1 million unique IPs.
Akamai also measures attack traffic, a measure of rogue activity on the Internet, such as DNS attacks, bots, spam activity and hackers. In terms of countries originating such activity, India is ranked at no. 17 globally, with 1.16% of observed attack traffic. US is ranked No. 1 on this parameter, with 22.85% of such traffic.
“We continue to see strong trends that point to an ever-improving Internet penetration figures in India with observed unique IPs growing 43% Y-o-Y and average connections speed well above 750 Kbps. The average connection speed will be an interesting number to track in the coming quarters and will give us a clear indication of the growing broadband adoption in the country,
I've heard that the number of netties in India is around 45-60Mn.Ex:http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm
This report says 2Mn unique IPs. Wonder what is the correlation between unique IPs and number of users?
@Nandan, excellent point. Unique IPs and number of users are not directly correlated as one IP can be used by one person and also by a company, where it could be shared by thousands of people. However, while user numbers are extrapolations and tend to have wide margins of error, unique IPs is an observable metric that helps you gauge the growth in penetration (y-o-y/q-o-q) and also for international/geographical comparisons.
that is a great report and some great information. that is the first time I had seen that but it definitely is some great stuff.