Internet Society Pulse
pulse.internetsociety.org · Company blog · on HN since 2022
The Internet Society tracks internet health, publishing data on IPv6 adoption, HTTP/3, DNS traffic, shutdowns, and consolidation.
What HN saysHN links it for IPv6 adoption figures and its shutdown tracker, though one commenter notes China's low reading likely reflects Great Firewall blocking.
16HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Internet Shutdowns Who Shuts Down the Internet the Most?3 people · 15 points · first shared 2025 · 3 comments on HN
- 2IPv6 Deployment Passes Another Milestone2 people · 15 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 3Why IPv6 Adoption Is Stalled1 people · 9 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 4More Countries Join the Majority IPv6 Club1 people · 6 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 5More Than 70% of DNS Root Queries Are Junk1 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · 2 comments on HN
- 6How Consolidation Is Eroding Internet Resilience1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 7Majority of Announced IPv6 Address Space Now Secured1 people · 4 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 8Africa's IPv6 Deployment Is Taking Off1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 9An Eye on the Numbers: IPv6 Deployment1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 10Where Are the Internet Networks?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 11Blackouts and Byteouts1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 12Measuring Data Center Growth1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 13Enabling Technologies1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14Insights from the UN Open Source Conf: Reclaiming the Internet's Foundations1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 15How Gamers Provide a Snapshot of Internet's Health1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
usui · 2026-04-16
Yeah and this distinction explains the fact that because China's Great Firewall blocks Google, this website shows 4.66% adoption as a reflection of that. I think China's IPv6 support rate is actually much higher than that, maybe a little over 50% because of its central initiative to increase IPv6 adoption?
EDIT: Apparently it's 77% https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/news/2026/01/china-hits-865m-ipv6…
__MatrixMan__ · 2025-07-07
When you're at a protest and the government shuts off the internet in response to the protest. It's happening right now in Togo, has been for ten days (https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/shutdowns/).
CharlesW · 2024-01-28
> Wasn't performance the whole point behind HTTP3?
Faster, more secure, and more reliable, yes. The numbers in this article looks terrible, but real-world testing¹ shows that real-world HTTP/3 performance is quite good, even though implementations are relatively young.
"…we saw substantially higher throughput on HTTP/3 compared to HTTP/2. For example, we saw about 69% of HTTP/3 connections reach a throughput of 5 Mbps or more […] compared to only 56% of HTTP/2 connections. In practice, this means that the video streams will be of a higher visual quality, and/or have fewer stalls over HTTP/3."
¹https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/measuring-http-3-real-world-per…
krichprollsch · 2023-10-05
The original blog post is served hover http/3 as far as I can see. https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/why-http-3-is-eating-the-world
kimburgess · 2023-07-05
Based on current trends, probably closer to 2024/25 for the global 50% mark.
https://pulse.internetsociety.org/technologies
https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage
the_biot · 2022-05-10
Can we cut this shit out? It's 2022, IPv6 has worked fine for decades, and Google is seeing 40% IPv6 usage on their services:
https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/ipv6-deployment-passes-another-…