Today's Internet users know that WWW means World Wide Web.
These users also acknowledge that the Internet travels
anywhere throughout the United States and across the world.
However, these Internet customers don't always know how the
Internet moves around. Many customers just to know that
their Internet is quickly accessing information. This flow
of information is affected by traffic. Comparatively, when
a highway's traffic is moving in the same direction at the
same time of day, traffic is slowed. In contrast, when
traffic is lighter, travel speeds are faster and you move
smoothly along. It's no surprise then that peak rush hour
slows the flow so much that many accidents happen and
traffic is brought to a complete stand still.
Applying this principle to the Internet helps you understand
how traffic flows around the WWW affect your travel speed.
Heavy traffic will slow down the system's response. Also,
heavy traffic will cause delays along the path to your web
site destination. Naturally, equipment malfunctions along
your travel route will slow your website uptake and maybe
even send you along an alternative path toward your final
destination. Granted, these slower uptakes or detours may
be only short intervals of time - a fraction of a second.
However, when you add up these short periods of time over
great distances, you are looking at costly delays,
especially in the business world that depends on the
Internet for a big part of their revenue.
A watchful eye on the traffic conditions and progressions in
Internet speed are closely kept by businesses that rely on a
speedy Internet and by Internet service providers.
Do traffic reports really let you know what's going on
around the global Internet highway? At Internet Traffic
Report's website, you'll find the tracking speeds in Europe,
Australia, Asia, North America and South America. Africa's
tracking speeds are not recorded since the continent doesn't
have enough routers to accurately report a message's speed
and route as it goes from a sender to a receiver, which is
how a meaningful traffic value is calculated. Each
continent in this report uses a traffic index that goes from
0 (which is the lowest rating) to 100 (which is the fastest
rating). This site also reports the average response time,
by fractions of a second, for test messages that the site
routinely sends out into the Internet. When you're tempted
to start complaining about your slow Internet speed, check
out the site for response time in North America. North
America's response time is on average double the fastness of
South America, Europe and Australia~s speed. Also, North
America's traffic speed is triple the quickness of Asia's.
A speedy trip into Internet Traffic Report online will
definitely strengthen your view on how great the World Wide
Web is at unifying the world and linking everyone across the
planet. For the several developing nations of the world,
the Internet is a traffic guru that is quick and reliable.