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Report on global Internet speeds

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Morris Kline once said “Statistics are the mathematical theory of ignorance”, well that may be true but in our business we love statistics. Sure, statistics are almost always subjective but they let us come as close to the truth as possible and give us some guidance if what we’re doing actually has the desired effect.

Nuff said! Here are the latest statistics regarding the top 50 countries on Internet and their connection speeds. Indonesia, which is #16 in the world based on the number of Internet users is on the 48th place in this top 50. So to all Internet startup entrepreneurs and developers in Indonesia we say make sure your application is lean and mean enough to still provide a pleasant user experience, it might just be the edge you need to beat your (foreign) competitors!

So here it is, courtesy of Pingdom & Akamai: