https://www.att.com/support/speedtest/ The AT&T speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf Hans van der Graaf
In general, the AT&T speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test is an Ookla powered speed test.
Ookla's Speedtest and Ookla powered speed tests are accurate, use a lot of data and take a relatively long time to complete.
These three features account for 70% of the overall score we give to a speed test. It is therefore not surprising that almost all clones of Ookla's Speedtest have the same overall score.
For a proper comparison between AT&T vs Ookla, we will focus on the differences between AT&T's speed test and Ookla's.
Since there are so many Ookla clones, we have created a separate list of Ookla clones for this purpose.
The AT&T speed test is owned by AT&T. The first occurence of a speed test at this URL is, according to the Wayback Machine, from May 2020.
Own interface
AT&T has developed an own user interface. Below you can see the final result of a test.
Pros
The AT&T speed test has the following pros:
- Ad-free
- A significant higher Observatory score than Ookla (70 instead of 5)
- Skip navigation button available
- Zero Wave errors (instead of 2)
Skipping the navigation links
The AT&T speed test is one of the few speed tests that offers a "Skip Navigation" option.
The AT&T speed test has a neat Skip Navigation button. This is shown in the dark bar near the top.
Cons
The AT&T speed test has the following cons:
- No link to Ookla's privacy policy
- Significant more cookies than Ookla (41 instead of 21)
- Less informative (due to a own developed interface)
- Significant more AChecker known problems (19 instead of 0)
- Only at the end of each subtest the measured value is displayed
Results at the end of the test
A peculiarity is that the results are only shown at the end of a test. Below you see a screenshot at the moment the download speed is measured. There is a progress bar, but you do not see an intermediate result yet. This is not common with online speed tests.
When to use AT&T
If you just want to know what your internet speed is, then read our advice for a better speed than this Ookla clone.
If you want to ask AT&T what to do to get the advertised speed you have to test properly.
Preferably you use this speed test and perform this test on several days.
Keep in mind that your home network is usually the bottleneck.
How we tested
We have tested the AT&T speed test in a standardized way. This makes speed tests easy to compare.
The following results form the basis for this speed test review:
- Abort/pause possible: no
- Ad-free: yes
- Average download speed of 3 measurements: 102 Mbps
- Clear indication of the current focus: yes
- Correct back button behavior: yes
- Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 37.97
- Number of ACheckers known problems: 19
- Number of cookies: 41
- Number of measured features: 4
- Number of Wave errors: 0
- Observatory score: 70
- Tingtun score: 99.74
- Total data use of 3 measurements: 772.19 MiBs
- Total time to complete 3 tests: 111 seconds