AliceHill.com - Where Technology Frolics

Great Website on World Internet Traffic

Data Geeks Gone Mad Dept: Here's a great site that measures traffic on the internet across the world and down to the router level. You can even see Tampa routers at zero after the hurricane. Not sure what all that means? Here's their quick Q&A:

Q: What's all this about?
A: The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.

Q: How does this relate to me?
A: Your Internet surfing safari may be smooth today, but perhaps you can't reach Yahoo or a few web sites in Europe. This web site will tell you if those regions of the Internet are currently slowed down. By checking the Internet Traffic Report, you can determine if your problems are global or local.

Q: What is the Global Index?
A: The Global Index is the overall average of the response rating from all servers queried in the Internet Traffic report. Higher Index means faster Internet.

Q: How often is this site updated?
A: Every 5 minutes.

Q: How do you measure "Internet traffic?"
A: A test called "ping" is used to measure round-trip travel time along major paths on the Internet. We have several servers in different areas of the globe perform the same ping at the same time. Each test server then compares the current response to past responses from the same test to determine if the response was bad or good on a scale of 0 to 100. The scores from all test servers are averaged together into a single index.

# Posted at 10:08 AM