The Net Data Directory collects and shares information on different sources of data about the Internet. For more about the project, see our about page. To get started, use the search box below, or check out our quick start guide.
This regional registry for Europe, former Soviet republics (including Russia), the Middle East, and Central Asia offers information on the allocation of IPv4 (https://www.ripe.net/publications/ipv6-info-centre/about-ipv6/ipv4-exhau...) and IPv6 addresses.
Sam Knows measures broadband quality: download speed, upload speed, latency, packet loss. It has worked with the FCC on the Measuring Broadband America initiative, and with other regulators across the world: UK’s Ofcom, the European Comission, Brazil’s Anatel, and Singapore’s IDA. The reports can be found here and data from the US and UK can downloaded here.
This source provides, upon registration, access to its Global Internet Phenomena reports, which analyzes traffic consumption and distribution on fixed and mobile data networks around the world. ,
SIDN is the administrator of the .nl domain and it provides information on the use of it.
This source provides rankings of websites and applications across the world and across different categories. It also offers detailed profiles of specific websites: number of visits, engagement, geographic distribution of users, traffic sources, etc. The data seems to be a combination of panel and ISP information.
This “action-lab” conducts research on the Iranian Internet, focusing on filtering and on politics and social media, with a series reports on the Iranian elections in social media, and analyses of conservative bloggers. They have also published a report on the LGBT online community in Iran.
The Social Media Exchange's Arab Digital Rights Dataset is a database of laws and other legal instruments in the Arab world that have been applied or could potentially be applied to restrict digital rights. The datasets include:
This source of official statistics has conducted several studies on general Internet use in Canada (2005, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012) plus some thematic studies on issues such as e-commerce, e-government, online health information, educational use of the Internet, etc.
By using a “tracking through portal” method, this joint industry committee provides monthly data on the number and profile of users of about 450 Dutch sites.
This source uses data from Google, ThreatTrack Security and NSFocus to provide information on malware; allow user to check the presence of malware on specific URLs, IPs, or AS; and produce a [top-50 ranking]( https://www.stopbadware.org/top-50) of Autonomous Systems and IPs.
