Free and Open Source Speed Test. No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.
No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.
No Australia
The NoScript list terrifies me a little though… Not sure what’s going on there, but that’s a lot of JavaScript lol.
Hi, I’m the original author of LibreSpeed. When you load the website it downloads a list of servers and tries all of them to see which one has the lowest ping, that’s what you’re seeing.
I use iperf3 with Speedtest’s servers, personally. But for a browser, yes JavaScript is needed… But needing JavaScript files from like 20 different domains is typically a red flag for me on any site.
It doesn’t need javascript from “20 different domains”, only a file called empty.php is fetched from those servers to measure the ping. The javascript is hosted on librespeed.org, which is under my control.
You can also self host it via docker.
Unfortunately doesn’t quite reach the speeds speedtest.net can hit, but still cool to have a tool like this
ISPs give special preference to speedtest.net, so that their metrics will look better. Which means it rarely reflects actual reality. Theres a good chance this test is closer to the actual speeds you’re getting everywhere but on speedtest.net.
I’m the author of the project. The servers are simply overloaded af unfortunately. It’s a fairly popular project and we don’t have enough servers to support this many concurrent users.
Thank you for the project. Maybe you can have an indicator saying
- Server load level = 4/5 Measured speed might not be indicative of true speed
- Server load level = 2/5 Measured speed is close to true speed
This could set an expectation for the users of the side
Hello there, I didn’t expect you to popup. (Nice project BTW)
Would it be possible to get more companies to sponsor it? It seems like it is free advertising especially for ISPs (as long as they don’t favor IPs)
Forgot to mention earlier, Steam is an example of a real world situation where I do actually hit around 1.5 Gb/s down
Speedtest.net, Steam, well populated torrents, and the Star Citizen patcher are the only things I’ve experienced my full downstream of 1.5Gbps with.
Depending on the country, if they don’t give special preference to speedtest.net, they might just block it.
It varies on your location. Also speed test.net is rigged and fully of bullshit (ads and tracking)
Speedtest.net isn’t rigged, I can exceed the speed I get on it with steam.
Try single server on soeedtest.net
Speedtest-Tracker or MySpeed are self-hosted solutions that can be extensively configured to send notifications when thresholds are exceeded or not reached.
In prefer not feeding Ooklas data, openspeedtest doesn’t use their servers and is also selfhostable
