TL;DR
Safe Browsing did not warn of unsafe content for any of the tested speed tests. For TestMy.net and Toast, a simple safety status could not be given because these sites have too much content.
Contents
Introduction
Safety is the end result of all security and privacy measures. It is therefore a derivative, but not unimportant, feature of any website, including online speed tests.
This is one of many tests we run to get an idea of the safety of speed tests.
Method of measurement
For this test we visit the homepage of the speed test and check the safety with Safe Browsing.
The test is invoked immediately after loading the homepage. When a speed test starts automatically, the test is started when the test is completed.
Speed tests to test
Because this is a relative simple test, all speed test used in earlier tests (the unique speed tests as collected at ZOMDir) will be tested.
Due to the subject we also test TestMyInternetSpeed. This is a crappy website which, under the guise of -we offer a speed test- only wants to obtain as many page views as possible.
The measurements
- Astound speedtest No unsafe content found
- Bandwidth Place No unsafe content found
- Bredbandskollen No unsafe content found
- Broadband Speed Checker No unsafe content found
- Cloudflare No unsafe content found
- Comparitech No unsafe content found
- DSLReports No unsafe content found
- Fast No unsafe content found
- Fireprobe No unsafe content found
- Google Fiber No unsafe content found
- Internet Speed at a Glance No unsafe content found
- LibreSpeed No unsafe content found
- M-Lab No unsafe content found
- Meter.net No unsafe content found
- N Perf No unsafe content found
- Ookla Speedtest No unsafe content found
- Open Speed Test No unsafe content found
- SamKnows No unsafe content found
- SpeedCheck No unsafe content found
- SpeedOf.me No unsafe content found
- SpeedOf.me API Sample Page No unsafe content found
- SpeedSmart No unsafe content found
- Speedtest4.PHP No unsafe content found
- TestMyInternetSpeed No unsafe content found
- TestMy.net Check a specific URL
- Toast Check a specific URL
- Which Broadband Speed Test No unsafe content found
- Xfinity xFi Speed Test No unsafe content found
Some examples
Some examples of test results are:
No unsafe content was found for most speed tests.
Sometimes it's hard to provide a simple safety status.
Conclusions
There are:
- 26 speed tests (including TestMyInternetSpeed) where no unsafe content was found
- 2 speed test for which it's hard to provide a simple safety status. These speed tests are
Safe Browsing did not warn of unsafe content for any of the tested speed tests. For TestMy.net and Toast, a simple safety status could not be given because these sites have too much content.