Follow Hong Kong Immigration and Hong Kong Life: The world's largest CDN service provider, Akamai, has released its latest "State of the Internet" report for the second quarter of 2013. The report presents the development of the Internet over the past few months and identifies which countries provide the best network services. Akamai's new report does not offer many surprises. The report indicates that Hong Kong, China, continues to be the region with the fastest Internet speed in the world, with an average peak connection speed reaching 65.1 Mbps, while South Korea ranks second in the world with a peak speed of 53.3 Mbps.
Of course, the average Internet connection speed is more important and better reflects the network level of a region. In this regard, although South Korea's average Internet speed has declined compared to the previous quarter, it remains the leader with an average speed of 13.3 Mbps. It is followed by Japan, with an average speed of 12 Mbps. Ranking third is Sweden, with an average speed of 11 Mbps.
As expected, the global average broadband speed is significantly low at only 3.3 Mbps, though this represents a 5.2% increase compared to the same period last year, while the global average peak connection speed rose by 0.1% to 18.9 Mbps.
As for China, the average Internet speed in mainland China is 2.8 Mbps, with an average peak speed of 11.4 Mbps. Additionally, 38% of global malicious network traffic originates from Indonesia, with China ranking second, accounting for 33% of the traffic.