New Jersey Ranked #3 For Fastest Internet Speed in 2020

With many shifting to working from home and homeschooling recently, Americans have had to reevaluate their internet needs. HighSpeedInternet.com, an online company that tracks speeds, prices, and equipment of Internet Service Providers nationwide, just passed three million speed tests completed on their site. New Jersey ranked #3 for the fastest internet speed in the US in 2020.

The data analysts at HighSpeedInternet.com looked at data from three million speed test tool results and took the average internet speed of every state in the US, then ranked them from fastest to slowest.

The top 10 states with the fastest internet are:

1. Maryland (84.1 Mbps)
2. Delaware (80.9 Mbps)
3. New Jersey (76.3 Mbps)
4. D.C. (75.2 Mbps)
5. Virginia (74.5 Mbps)
6. Rhode Island (74.5 Mbps)
7. Massachusetts (73.6 Mbps)
8. Colorado (70.9 Mbps)
9. Washington (67.3 Mbps)
10. California (67.2 Mbps)

The states with the slowest internet are:

1. Alaska (20.6 Mbps)
2. Montana (30.1 Mbps)
3. Maine (30.8 Mbps)
4. Idaho (30.9 Mbps)
5. Wyoming (33.3 Mbps)
6. South Dakota (33.3 Mbps)
7. Iowa (35.8 Mbps)
8. Arkansas (37.3 Mbps)
9. Mississippi (37.9 Mbps)
10. Hawaii (38.1 Mbps)

The nationwide average internet speed is 59.5 megabits per second. Delaware and New Jersey ranked in the top states for fastest internet speeds for a second year in a row.