The Bredbandskollen speed test

https://www.bredbandskollen.se/en/ The Bredbandskollen speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the Bredbandskollen speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because there are more accurate speed tests.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 103 Mbps, we conclude that the Bredbandskollen speed test is a relative accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 91/100).

Bredbandskollen is a Miscellaneous speed test. Sometimes the results are in line with a mainstrean speed test, sometimes the speed test should be categorized as an ambiguous speed test.

Bredbandskollen is run by The Swedish Internet Foundation. It is therefore not surprising that all test servers are located in Scandinavia (Malmö, Göteborg, Stockholm, Sundsvall and Oslo).

The first occurence of the Bredbandskollen speed test in the Wayback Machine is September 2018.

From a speed test researcher's point of view, this is an interesting speed test. It is possible to indicate which technique should be used to measure the internet speed.

The following methods are available:

  1. Websockets+HTTP
  2. Websockets (prioritized)
  3. HTTP (prioritized)
  4. Websockets (exclusively)
  5. HTTP (exclusively)

The result page of the Bredbandskollen speed test

Bredbandskollen was the number 4 speed test in the speed test test of 2022.

The Bredbandskollen speed test is an original speed test.

Pros

This Bredbandskollen speed test has the following pros:

  1. The speed test has an excellent usability

Cons

This Bredbandskollen speed test has the following cons:

  1. Unnecessary cookies are placed
  2. The measured value is on the high side

When to use Bredbandskollen

If you just want to experiment with speed tests, then give Bredbandskollen a try and experiment with the methods they offer.

How we tested

We have tested the Bredbandskollen speed test in a standardized way. This makes speed tests easy to compare.

The following results form the basis for this speed test review:

  1. Abort/pause possible: yes
  2. Ad-free: yes
  3. Average download speed of 3 measurements: 103 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: no
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 25.86
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 16
  8. Number of cookies: 2
  9. Number of measured features: 3
  10. Number of Wave errors: 4
  11. Observatory score: 25
  12. Tingtun score: 98.21
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 474.38 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 72 seconds