The third annual Speed Matters report on Internet Speeds in America was released today by the Communication Workers of America - and U.S. connection speeds have not improved significantly in the past year. 

The results of nearly 413,000 real-time Internet connection speed tests show that the United States continues tolag behind other countries for average upload and download speeds.

 The average download speed of U.S. internet connections is 5.1 megabits per second, significantly below the averages of countries like South Korea (20.1mbps),Japan (16 mbps) and Sweden (12.7 mbps).

Only twenty percent of those who took the Speed Matter speed test have internet speeds in the range of the top ranked countries. Eighteen percent of the test takers didn't meet the FCC definition for current generation broadband.

California results: