Speed tests and Norton's Safe Web Report

TL;DR

All speed tests except TestMyInternetSpeed receive the Norton rating: Safe.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Method of measurement
3. Speed tests to test
4. The measurements
5. Conclusions

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 Norton's Safe Web.

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

1. Astound speedtest Safe
2. Bandwidth Place Safe
3. Bredbandskollen Safe
4. Broadband Speed Checker Safe
5. Cloudflare Safe
6. Comparitech Safe
7. DSLReports Safe
8. Fast Safe
9. Fireprobe Safe
10. Google Fiber Safe
11. Internet Speed at a Glance Safe
12. LibreSpeed Safe
13. M-Lab Safe
14. Meter.net Safe
15. N Perf Safe
16. Ookla Speedtest Safe
17. Open Speed Test Safe
18. SamKnows Safe
19. SpeedCheck Safe
20. SpeedOf.me Safe
21. SpeedOf.me API Sample Page Safe
22. SpeedSmart Safe
23. Speedtest4.PHP Safe
24. TestMyInternetSpeed Caution
25. TestMy.net Safe
26. Toast Safe
27. Which Broadband Speed Test Safe
28. Xfinity xFi Speed Test Safe

Some examples

Some examples of test results are:

Conclusions

All speed tests except TestMyInternetSpeed receive the Norton rating: Safe.