Akamai State of the Internet Report – South Korea Best Internet Connection, Rwanda Worst Internet Connection

Akamai is out today with their second quarter 2008 "State of the Internet" report. The report is well worth a read as it covers a variety of topics including: security, connection speeds, geography, network access, and Internet penetration. Some of the interesting stats include:

• Japan moved from 7th to 1st in Internet attack traffic – China fell from 1st to 3rd and the U.S. moved up from 3rd to 2nd.
• Directly from the report, "In the Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions, Romania (.ro) and Russia (.ru) are risky surfing destinations, with 6.8 percent of Romanian and 6.0 percent of Russian domains rated risky."
• The U.S. had the most unique IP addresses at 102 million with a total of 346 total worldwide unique IP addresses.

Here are a couple of the charts from the report.

High Broadband Connectivity: Fastest International Countries

South Korea remains in the lead with 64% of connections to Akamai occurring at over 5 Mbps. Japan ranked second and the U.S. moved up one slot to sixth.

Slowest International Countries

For those countries on some form of broadband, here are the countries with the slowest (less than 256k) connections. Rwanda came in first although they moved up from 100% to 94% of connections on these slower broadband connections. The U.S. comes in just over 8% of all connections at this speed – my mother is one of those 8% as she is still on a 56k modem.