TL;DR
The most keyboard friendly speed test is Internet Speed at a Glance. This speed test starts automatically, requires only one input for a retest and clearly shows which element has the focus.
With slightly more keystrokes, Cloudflare and Xfinity xFi Speed Test are good alternatives.
Contents
Introduction
Website accessibility and assessing accessibility is often problematic. Although automatic tests are available, not all aspects are tested. This test focuses on the usability of the speed tests using only the keyboard.
In this test, we test which speed tests could be started with a key click (that is explicitly without a mouse click).
Method of measurement
For this test only the keyboard is used while using a clean Firefox browser. The keyboard shortcuts are used to operate the browser.
Speed tests to test
Because this is a very simple test, the unique speed tests as collected at ZOMDir will be tested.
The measurements
- Astound speedtest not possible to start the test keyboard only
- Bandwidth Place not possible to start the test keyboard only
- Bredbandskollen starts after 8 tabs followed by enter, restart with enter
- Broadband Internet Speed test (Gone) starts after 6 tabs followed by enter (this speed test malfunctions)
- Broadband Speed Checker not possible to start the test keyboard only
- Cloudflare starts automatic, first restart with 3 tabs followed by enter, next restarts with enter
- Comparitech not possible to start the test keyboard only
- DSLReports starts after 23 tabs followed by enter not relevant (this speed test malfunctions)
- Fast starts automatic, not possible to restart the test keyboard only
- Fireprobe not possible to start the test keyboard only
- Google Fiber not possible to start the test keyboard only
- Internet Speed at a Glance starts automatic, restart with enter
- LibreSpeed not possible to start the test keyboard only
- Measurement Lab not possible to start the test keyboard only
- Meter.net starts after 7 tabs followed by enter, restart after 10 tabs followed by enter
- N Perf starts after 55 tabs followed by enter (or 20 shift tabs followed by enter), restart seems not possible
- Ookla Speedtest requires 4 tabs plus enter to accept Ookla's data processing policy, then 1 tab followed by enter starts the test. It is not possible to restart the test keyboard only
- Open Speed Test starts with enter, retest starts after 5 tabs followed by enter
- SamKnows starts (and restart) after 2 tabs followed by enter
- SpeedCheck not possible to start the test keyboard only
- SpeedOf.me starts after 6 tabs followed by enter, restart not possible keyboard only
- SpeedOf.me API Sample Page start after 8 tabs (or 2 shift tabs) followed by enter, restart with enter
- SpeedSmart start after 7 tabs followed by enter, restart not possible keyboard only
- Speedtest4.PHP starts automatic, restart after 10 tabs followed by enter (this speed test malfunctions)
- TestMy.net starts after 6 tabs, an enter, 19 tabs followed by enter, restart after 17 tabs followed by enter
- Toast starts after 19 tabs followed by enter, restart after 2 tabs, an enter, 7 tabs followed by enter (this speed test malfunctions)
- Which Broadband Speed Test requires 4 tabs followed by enter to accept the cookies. To start the test press 12 shift tabs followed by enter, restart not possible
- Xfinity xFi Speed Test starts after 2 tabs followed by enter, restart after 3 tabs followed by enter
Conclusions
There are:
- 9 speed tests can be started and restarted keyboard-only
- 6 speed tests can be started keyboard only but a restart keyboard only is not possible
- 4 speed tests can be started keyboard only but these speed tests malfunctions
- 9 speed tests that can't be started keyboard only
For the 9 speed tests that can be started and restarted keyboard-only, the median to start the speed test is 3 keystrokes. The median for restarts is 4 keystrokes.
5 of these 9 keyboard-only speed tests clearly indicate which element has been selected.
Top 3 keyboard friendly speed tests
All in all, this is the top 3 of keyboard friendly speed tests: