The Top 10 Cities With the Best Broadband

Ookla has introduced a broadband index that tabulates results from the more than 1 million speed tests done each day around the world. It's found that the average global broadband speed is 7.69 Mbps while the U.S. speeds average out at 10.12 Mbps. The company's goal is to move the testing beyond the tech-savvy market (we use it!), so as to get a better sense of how broadband speeds really play out across the world. The FCC is encouraging consumers to use the sites (Ookla also runs a site that tests jitter and packet loss at pingtest.net) as part of its nationwide testing goals, and many of Ookla's ISP customers also offer the test to their customers and host Ookla's servers.

Here are the top 10 U.S. cities and their corresponding 30-day average speeds:

1.San Jose, Calif. 15.02 Mbps
2.Saint Paul, Minn. 14.53 Mbps
3.Pittsburgh, Pa. 14.18 Mbps
4.Oklahoma City, Okla. 12.12 Mbps
5.Brooklyn, N.Y. 12.10 Mbps
6.Tampa, Fla. 12.05 Mbps
7.Bronx, N.Y. 12.01 Mbps
8.New York, N.Y. 11.85 Mbps
9.Denver, Colo. 11.68 Mbps
10.Sacramento, Calif. 11.34 Mbps

The global top 10:

1.Seoul, South Korea 34.49 Mbps
2.Riga, Latvia 27.88 Mbps
3.Hamburg, Germany 26.85 Mbps
4.Chisinau, Republic of Moldova 24.31 Mbps
5.Helsinki, Finland 20.58 Mbps Mbps
6.Stockholm, Sweden 19.97 Mbps
7.Bucharest, Romania 19.68 Mbps
8.Sofia, Bulgaria 18.99 Mbps
9.Kharkov, Ukraine 18.15 Mbps
10.Kaunas, Lithuania 17.46 Mbps