Akamai "State of the Internet" report reveals some interesting stats.

Akamai have released their latest "State of the Internet" report covering data from the last quarter of 2013.

Inside is some rather interesting information and statistics from their content delivery network. Here are just a few of the highlights from their report.

Average Connection Speed by Country/Region in Avg. Mbps
– Global 3.6
1 South Korea 22.1
2 Japan 13.3
3 Hong Kong 12.5
4 Netherlands 12.5
5 Switzerland 11.6
6 Czech Republic 11.3
7 Latvia 11.1
8 United States 9.8
9 Belgium 9.7
10 Ireland 9.6


Attack Traffic, Top Originating Countries (by source IP address, not attribution)
1 China 35%
2 Indonesia 20%
3 United States 11%
4 Taiwan 5.2%
5 Russia 2.6%
6 Brazil 2.1%
7 India 1.9%
8 Romania 1.7%
9 South Korea 1.2%
10 Venezuela 1.1%
– Other 17%


Attack Traffic, Top Ports
445 Microsoft-DS 23%
80 WWW (HTTP) 14%
443 SSL (HTTPS) 13%
1433 Microsoft SQL Server 8.6%
3389 Microsoft Terminal Services 5.1%
23 Telnet 3.8%
135 Microsoft-RPC 2.8%
22 SSH 2.2%
8080 HTTP Alternate 2.0%
1998 Cisco X.25 Over TCP 1.6%

Various Other 24%

Data from Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Q3 2013)