Akamai, the world’s largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, uses its globally distributed Akamai Intelligent Platform™ to process trillions of Internet transactions each day. This allows them to gather massive amounts of data on metrics related to broadband connectivity, cloud security, and media delivery. The State of the Internet report was created to enable businesses and governments to make better strategic decisions by leveraging this data and the insights it offers. Akamai publishes State of the Internet reports based on this data, with a focus on broadband connectivity and cloud security. It also focuses on DNS data from Akamai’s global infrastructure and represents the research of a diverse set of teams from around the globe.