The latest articles on DEV Community by Jackson (@jacksonbin). https://dev.to/jacksonbin https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4110715%2F41d8e0bd-9570-48cc-b623-54e34c6f2c6f.png https://dev.to/jacksonbin en Jackson Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:01:52 +0000 https://dev.to/jacksonbin/i-open-sourced-the-internet-speed-data-collected-by-my-speed-test-site-3gf1 https://dev.to/jacksonbin/i-open-sourced-the-internet-speed-data-collected-by-my-speed-test-site-3gf1 <p>I run <a href="https://internetspeedtest.net" rel="noopener noreferrer">internetspeedtest.net</a>, a free, no-signup speed test built on the open-source <a href="https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest" rel="noopener noreferrer">LibreSpeed</a> engine.</p> <p>Over time, those tests produce something potentially useful beyond the individual result: observational data about download speed, upload speed, and latency across countries and ISPs. So I've started publishing the aggregated data openly.</p> <p>The first release contains January to August 2026. Each month is a JSON file containing average, median, p25, and p75 for download, upload, and ping, grouped by country and ISP. A new month is added automatically. The license is CC BY 4.0.</p> <h2> An important limitation </h2> <p>This isn't a broadband census. Tests come from people who happen to visit internetspeedtest.net, so the sample is self-selected and uneven. Country and ISP come from IP lookup rather than independent verification. I therefore wouldn't use these numbers to claim that one country definitively has faster broadband than another.</p> <p>I also exclude small samples: an aggregate needs at least 200 tests globally, 30 for a country, or 20 for an ISP before it's published.</p> <p>I can imagine the data being useful for exploratory analysis, student projects, visualizations, or as one source when investigating broadband claims.</p> <h2> Where to get it </h2> <ul> <li>GitHub (canonical, updated monthly): <a href="https://github.com/internetspeedtest-net/internetspeedtest-dataset" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/internetspeedtest-net/internetspeedtest-dataset</a> </li> <li>Zenodo (DOI): <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22308236" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22308236</a> </li> <li>Kaggle: <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/jacksonbin/internet-speed-statistics-by-country-and-isp-2026" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/jacksonbin/internet-speed-statistics-by-country-and-isp-2026</a> </li> <li>Hugging Face: <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/jacksonbin/internet-speed-by-country-and-isp" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://huggingface.co/datasets/jacksonbin/internet-speed-by-country-and-isp</a> </li> </ul> <p>Full methodology: <a href="https://internetspeedtest.net/blog/internet-speed-dataset-open-source" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://internetspeedtest.net/blog/internet-speed-dataset-open-source</a></p> <p>If you build anything with it, I'd be interested to see what questions you try to answer.</p> opensource opendata data