Internet in the CIS region
How fast is the internet in Azerbaijan and its neighbours, how is it changing, and where is it heading? This page compares twelve countries of the former Soviet Union, looks inside Azerbaijan city by city, and is refreshed automatically from public sources.
A personal project. The figures are Ookla's, the ITU's and APNIC's, not official statistics of the Information and Communication Technologies Agency, and the views are my own.
Azerbaijan at a glance
Where the region stands
Speedtest Global Index, any month since June 2023. Darker means better, for latency as for speed. Countries without a figure for the chosen month are hatched; Belarus and Russia appear up to April 2025.
Speeds month by month
From Ookla reports each month as a rolling three-month figure, which smooths the series. Hover a grey line to see which country it is, and click it to compare.
Where the trend points
An ARIMA model with a linear trend, chosen by AIC and refitted every month. The shaded band is the model's interval; with only a few years of data, read the band rather than the central line.
Global rank, a year apart
Position in Ookla's worldwide ranking by median download speed; a line rising to the right is an improvement. Click a line to compare that country.
Azerbaijan, city by city
Azerbaijan's 78 cities and districts, from Ookla Open Data. Ookla publishes these data as map tiles of roughly 600 metres; each tile is placed in the city or district that contains it. The average weights tiles by their number of tests; the median tile is the middle of the tile averages, which a handful of very fast tiles cannot pull up. Areas with fewer than tests in the quarter are hatched.
How each place has changed since 2019
Quarterly figures for the chosen city or district, against the national figure computed the same way. These tile-based figures come from a different source from the Global Index above and run higher than its medians, so the two should not be compared directly.
Who is connected
Ready for IPv6?
IPv6 is the successor to the exhausted IPv4 address space. Monthly figures from APNIC Labs, which measures this with test objects placed in online advertisements.
Sources and method
Speedtest Global Index (Ookla), monthly. Ookla publishes only the last thirteen months, so every earlier month on this page comes from an archive kept since June 2023; the few months absent from that archive are filled by linear interpolation. Belarus and Russia were withdrawn from the index in 2025, so their series end in April 2025. The series for Georgia and Ukraine begin in July 2025, the earliest month Ookla still published when they were added, and Turkmenistan appears only in the months Ookla reports it.
Ookla Open Data, quarterly, from 2019, used here only for the cities and districts of Azerbaijan. Each tile is assigned to the city or district containing its centre, using the second-level boundaries published by geoBoundaries (derived from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0). A unit's figure is the mean of its tile averages, weighted by the number of tests. Speedtest users are a self-selected sample, and tests cluster where people live and where connections are being checked, so these are indicators rather than measurements of every connection.
Projections are fitted to the Global Index series each month: for every country, network, statistic and measure, the ARIMA model with a linear trend that has the lowest AIC among orders up to (3, 1, 3) is projected up to 24 months ahead. The intervals are the model's own. With about three years of monthly data, and a change in Ookla's method in mid-2024, the uncertainty about the model itself is larger than those intervals show; read the projections as a continuation of the recent trend, not as a prediction.
APNIC Labs IPv6 measurement, daily, aggregated here to months as the number of IPv6-capable samples divided by all samples; months with fewer than 20 days of data are left out. Data © APNIC, re-used with attribution.
ITU and World Bank indicators, annual, as republished by Our World in Data under CC BY 4.0.
A scheduled job fetches all four sources each month and refuses to save a refresh in which any country would lose months of history. The data and code are in the site repository; the tables behind the charts are global_index.csv (countries, monthly) and azerbaijan_regions.csv (cities and districts, quarterly).
Speedtest® by Ookla® Global Fixed and Mobile Network Performance Maps, accessed from AWS; based on Samir Orujov's analysis of these maps for 2019 Q1 to the latest quarter. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Ookla trademarks used under license and reprinted with permission.