Measurement Lab is happy to announce the publication of the Internet Quality Barometer Framework!

From June 11th-13th, 2024, Measurement Lab (M-Lab) organized and participated in the first of four convenings that will take place over the course of the Open Measurement Gatherings (OMG) project. The inaugural event was planned in collaboration with the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IO...

Measurement Lab is pleased to announce the addition of Melissa Newcomb to our team as our new Senior Program Manager.

Join our monthly community call on June 6, 2024 at 11am ET to discuss Dioptra’s recent work on fast-mda-traceroute and considerations that have gone into its design and testing.

Interested in metrics that measure an Internet connection's quality from the end user perspective? Join us at our April M-Lab Community Call on April 4, 2042 at 11am EDT.

We've added a new, flexible set of options to expand and diversify our global fleet of measurement vantage points.

Access to high speed Internet does not necessarily mean access to high quality Internet. But if not speed then what? How should we measure Internet quality? Join our monthly community call on February 1, 2024 at 11am ET to discuss and contribute to our latest research initiative, sponsored by I...

2023 was a big year! Here’s a summary of what we were up to and what's coming up next.

M-Lab and the Wehe team are pleased to announce that Wehe data is available for open access in BigQuery.

Are you attending the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2023?

Join us for M-Lab's next Community Office Hours on July 20, 2023 at 11:00am EDT!

Are you new to M-Lab data? Do you have questions about how to use it or how it can fit into your research?

As of April 2023, we are excited to announce that M-Lab has a virtual site running ndt-server in all 35 GCP regions.

Want to know more about your Internet connection? M-Lab is proud to announce that we are now publishing Cloudflare’s Aggregated Internet Measurement (AIM) dataset, which puts network quality in an end-user context.

Measurement Lab is pleased to announce the addition of Katherine Townsend to our team as our new Director.

Summary of M-Lab's hackathon at IMC 2022!

M-Lab is excited to announce “M-Lab to the Cloud”, beginning with our pilot deployment of NDT servers on cloud infrastructure.

Recordings of the 2022 M-Lab Fellowship Presentations and Reports.

Come learn about the exciting research that the M-Lab Fellows completed during their fellowship!

A note from Lai Yi Ohlsen to the Measurement Lab community.

Changes to our geographic annotations have resulted in changes to geographic filters.

On March 16 we hosted a town hall discussion regarding M-Lab’s collection of IP addresses and asked for feedback on potential alternatives. We are accepting comments on the techniques we proposed until April 1.

Presentation on the benefits and challenges of M-Lab’s collection of IP addresses and feedback solicitation for potential alternatives

M-Lab is pleased to share our selection of Research Fellows for Spring 2022, generously supported by Internet Society. The fellows were selected for the merit, rigor, and feasibility of their proposed project as well as their research's relevance to improvement for end-user Internet performance. ...

At TPRC 2021, Dave Clark and Sare Wedeman presented “Measurement, Meaning and Purpose: Exploring the NDT Dataset” which raises relevant and timely questions about M-Lab’s NDT dataset and its potential applications. Please join us Wednesday, December 15, 2021 from 11am-12:00 pm Eastern for a prese...

How can M-Lab’s data and platform be used to improve the experience of the Internet for the end user? Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open da...

The M-Lab Experiment Review Committee met on October 21, 2021. The following is a summary of our discussion.

Internet performance is often measured by download and upload “speed” but there are other metrics that can help measure connectivity, such as latency, bufferbloat and a more recently discussed metric: responsiveness. Join us next Wednesday, August 25, 2021 from 11am-12:30pm Eastern for a conv...

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) recently released a new public map, the [Indicators of Broadband Need][ntia]. Pulling together different sources of data in this excellent, publicly available resource is helpful to communities as they plan how and where to i...

In the past month we’ve made several improvements to ndt-server, ndt7-client-js, and ndt7-client-go. If you have any questions about the following, please comment on the relevant Github issues.

Hello! I hope this finds you well. Today I’m writing with the first of many newsletters that you’ll receive on this mailing list. In each monthly edition, we’ll provide updates about M-Lab such as changes to our platform and pipeline, data schemas, community tools, best practice analyses, communi...

In 2021, Measurement Lab will facilitate a series of community calls focusing on 3 core topics: General M-Lab updates, Internet Measurement Research and Broadband Advocacy/Policy. We will rotate through these topics on the fourth Wednesday of every month and every meeting will take place at 11am ...

For researchers, policy makers, governing bodies, advocacy groups, or anyone who wants to understand M-Lab data and how it compares to other internet measurement data sets, M-Lab has begun to develop recommendations for appropriate use of our data in their analyses and reports.

The M-Lab team is excited to officially announce the launch of the [Wehe][wehe-test] measurement service on the platform. Working closely with the Wehe research team headed by [David Choffnes][david-choffnes], Associate Professor at Northeastern University, M-Lab launched the new measurement serv...

In an effort to communicate more about the status and trajectory of the M-Lab platform with our community, we’re pleased to provide this first roadmap update which will cover Q4 2020- Q1 2021. Our team currently plans our milestones and tasks every ~6 months, with regular internal meetings and up...

Over the past month, M-Lab has published a series of blog posts about ndt7. As of Thursday, August 13th, 2020 roughly 90% of NDT clients using secure websockets have completed the migration from ndt5 to ndt7.

NDT measures "bulk transport capacity": the maximum date rate that TCP can reliably deliver data using the unreliable IP protocol over an end-to-end Internet path. TCP's goal is to send data at exactly the optimal rate for the network, containing just the right mix of new data and retransmissions...

Following the [general availability of the ndt7 protocol][ndt7intro], we will be working with NDT client integrators to support their migration to ndt7. As they do, the NDT dataset will shift from predominantly ndt5 to predominantly ndt7. As part of assessing our readiness for this larger effort,...

The new ndt7 protocol for the [Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT)][ndt] is now generally available on the M-Lab platform. Since 2009, NDT has been the premier TCP performance measurement service test hosted by M-Lab. During its history on the platform, NDT has produced the largest te...

In response to increased reliance on the Internet during the COVID-19 pandemic Measurement Lab, with the support of Internet Society, is dedicated to making our NDT data more accessible so everyone with an interest in Internet Performance can use our data in their research. We s...

Measurement Lab (M-Lab) has been a supportive partner of the FCC’s Measuring Broadband America program since its beginning due to the program’s commitment to openness, open data and transparency which aligns closely with M-Lab’s mission around open data and open source internet measurement. Measu...

Measurement Lab’s dataset is free, open, and full of data for Internet researchers to study how the Internet is performing under the increased COVID-19 related Internet usage. The DataStudio dashboards below correspond to the internal monitoring metrics we posted last week. They show data about t...

As COVID-19's impact increases globally, more people are working, learning and living online. Internet infrastructure is critical in these moments. The user-initiated measurements collected by M-Lab provide an opportunity to understand whether our shared infrastructure can handle the unprecedente...