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Google's IPv6 statistics (https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption&tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption https://www.google.com

Google's IPv6 statistics (https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption&tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...) show that the US is ahead of literally every other country in the world, so I think it's fair to say US ISPs aren't doing too badly.

ancarda 8y ago
Belgium (50.02%) is ahead of the USA (37.19%) on that chart, although you may have missed that as it's quite a small country. Click "Europe" to zoom in a bit. Alternative data from Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/ipv6/?tab=ipv6_country https://www.facebook.com/ipv6/?tab=ipv6_country -- is quite a bit different but shows Belgium (50.45%) and India (50.27%) are both slightly ahead the US (49.28%). It's very hard to measure IPv6 adoption. I would personally go with Google's measurements as I suspect the numbers are higher on Facebook because fewer people access Facebook at work, where those networks tend to have less IPv6.
- Siecje 8y ago
  Why is adoption a triangle wave pattern?
  - ancarda 8y ago
    The charts graph IPv6 traffic, so it also represents a lot of human behavior. What you're seeing here is actually IPv6 being about ~4% higher on weekends compared to week-days. Looking at last week's data: June 16th (Sat): 23.91% June 17th (Sun): 23.14% June 18th (Mon): 20.10% This low trend continues until: June 21 (Thu): 20.27% June 22 (Fri): 21.30% June 23 (Sat): 23.73% June 24 (Sun): 23.01% If I had to guess why it's lowest on Mondays, it's because more people are in the office. Enterprise networks tend to have less IPv6 adoption; they are larger, more complex, and often have security considerations like ensuring IPv6 support doesn't interfere with firewall or anti-fraud systems. Home users tend to get IPv6 because their ISP's router got an update; it's largely invisible, so IPv6 traffic is higher on weekends, when fewer people are at work. Edit: Also, I forgot to mention, this pattern breaks quite a bit for the holidays. Look at the data around December 25; you'll see lots of bumps, but it doesn't have that weekly crash happening on Monday.
- ajdlinux 8y ago
  Ah, I did indeed miss Belgium. Surprising they don't have a table.
  - neojima 8y ago
    That's another benefit of https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ -- the tables, including down to ASN.
neojima 8y ago
As mentioned/hinted by ancarda: a) You missed Belgium. (Common oversight, due to the size on the map.) b) Google's stats have something of a US-centric bias; https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ is a little less biased (which also shows Belgium and India in the lead).
- ancarda 8y ago
  Thanks for that link, it's good to see more measurements. Would you elaborate a bit on APNIC's data having less bias than Google? As far as I know, Google is quite popular worldwide, with the exception of China, so measurements taken on Google servers should give decent accuracy for every country. Do you know how APNIC get their data? I'm happy to switch over to it if it's more representative and accurate.
  - neojima 8y ago
    https://labs.apnic.net/?p=479 https://labs.apnic.net/?p=479 https://labs.apnic.net/?p=655 https://labs.apnic.net/?p=655 From what I've gleaned, the use of Google ads catches the use case of people who don't actively use Google -- based on the delta in metrics between Google's stats and APNIC's, I would suspect that Google isn't quite as popular globally as you think it is (but their ad platform is!).

ancarda 8y ago

Belgium (50.02%) is ahead of the USA (37.19%) on that chart, although you may have missed that as it's quite a small country. Click "Europe" to zoom in a bit. Alternative data from Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/ipv6/?tab=ipv6_country https://www.facebook.com/ipv6/?tab=ipv6_country -- is quite a bit different but shows Belgium (50.45%) and India (50.27%) are both slightly ahead the US (49.28%). It's very hard to measure IPv6 adoption. I would personally go with Google's measurements as I suspect the numbers are higher on Facebook because fewer people access Facebook at work, where those networks tend to have less IPv6.

Siecje 8y ago
Why is adoption a triangle wave pattern?
- ancarda 8y ago
  The charts graph IPv6 traffic, so it also represents a lot of human behavior. What you're seeing here is actually IPv6 being about ~4% higher on weekends compared to week-days. Looking at last week's data: June 16th (Sat): 23.91% June 17th (Sun): 23.14% June 18th (Mon): 20.10% This low trend continues until: June 21 (Thu): 20.27% June 22 (Fri): 21.30% June 23 (Sat): 23.73% June 24 (Sun): 23.01% If I had to guess why it's lowest on Mondays, it's because more people are in the office. Enterprise networks tend to have less IPv6 adoption; they are larger, more complex, and often have security considerations like ensuring IPv6 support doesn't interfere with firewall or anti-fraud systems. Home users tend to get IPv6 because their ISP's router got an update; it's largely invisible, so IPv6 traffic is higher on weekends, when fewer people are at work. Edit: Also, I forgot to mention, this pattern breaks quite a bit for the holidays. Look at the data around December 25; you'll see lots of bumps, but it doesn't have that weekly crash happening on Monday.
ajdlinux 8y ago
Ah, I did indeed miss Belgium. Surprising they don't have a table.
- neojima 8y ago
  That's another benefit of https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ -- the tables, including down to ASN.

neojima 8y ago

As mentioned/hinted by ancarda: a) You missed Belgium. (Common oversight, due to the size on the map.) b) Google's stats have something of a US-centric bias; https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ is a little less biased (which also shows Belgium and India in the lead).

ancarda 8y ago
Thanks for that link, it's good to see more measurements. Would you elaborate a bit on APNIC's data having less bias than Google? As far as I know, Google is quite popular worldwide, with the exception of China, so measurements taken on Google servers should give decent accuracy for every country. Do you know how APNIC get their data? I'm happy to switch over to it if it's more representative and accurate.
- neojima 8y ago
  https://labs.apnic.net/?p=479 https://labs.apnic.net/?p=479 https://labs.apnic.net/?p=655 https://labs.apnic.net/?p=655 From what I've gleaned, the use of Google ads catches the use case of people who don't actively use Google -- based on the delta in metrics between Google's stats and APNIC's, I would suspect that Google isn't quite as popular globally as you think it is (but their ad platform is!).