The report titled “The State of the Internet” published by Akamai describes compares speed of internet in countries across the globe.
The average peak connection speed metric represents an average of the maximum measured connection speeds across all of the unique IP addresses seen by Akamai from a particular geography, and is more representative of Internet connection capacity.
The average is used to mitigate the impact of unrepresentative maximum measured connection speeds.
The global average peak connection speed saw very strong growth during the first quarter of 2013, increasing 9.2% to 18.4 Mbps, the reports said.
the countries/regions that saw yearly declines, losses ranged from 3.8% in Guatemala (to 15.6 Mbps) to 28% in Sudan.
The lowest average peak connection speed in the first quarter was recorded in Iran, at 3.2 Mbps down 7.1% year-over-year.