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It is understood that different providers of Internet speeds can have very different results. For example see the following comparison of Akamai and M-Lab (from https://www.fastmetrics.com/internet-connection-speed-by-country.php#top-10-comparison-2018):
Differences:
- South Korea comes in at 30th place for download speed in the new top 50, via M-Lab data.
- South Korea was a leader in average internet speeds from Akamai data, since Q4 of 2015.
- Between 2017 - 2018, M-Lab data shows South Korea dropping 14 positions for average download speed.
- Over 2017 - 2018, M-Lab data shows no change to the top 2 countries for average internet download speed. (Singapore 1st and Sweden 2nd).
- Biggest year on year increases to average download speeds in the new top 50, are mostly in smaller countries or principalities.
- Luxembourg, (population of approx. 600,000) moved up 25 positions to 8th. (Average download speed of 35.14Mbps. Speeds increased by 19.62Mbps year on year there).
- In Romania, average download speeds increased by more than 17Mbps YOY (5th overall ranking. Average download speed of 38.6Mbps).
- The principality of Andorra increased average download speeds by 15.07Mbps, year on year. (18th overall. Average speed of 27.14Mbps).
- Top 10 fastest average internet download speeds (M-Lab data), dominated by smaller countries both in geographical size and population. The most populous country of Japan, comes in at 14th position, with average download speeds of 28.94Mbps.
- USA drops to 20th according to M-Lab data, with an average download speed of 25.86Mbps.
- Between 2017 - 2018 average download speeds in the USA increased by 5.86Mbps. This from the largest sample size of speed tests of any country in the top 50, (more than 89 million tests).
- In Q1 of 2017, Akamai reported average internet speeds of 18.7Mbps for the USA, or 10th overall worldwide.
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