The Breitbandmessung speed test

https://www.breitbandmessung.de/test The Breitbandmessung speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the Breitbandmessung speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test is slow.

This speed test is a German speed test, although if you live in Germany and want to measure your internet speed in a structured way, it is advised to use the Breitbandmessung Desktop-App.

 

With an adverstised speed of 125 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 127.1 Mbps, we conclude that the Breitbandmessung speed test is an accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 98/100).

The Breitbandmessung speed test is a mainstream speed test. That is, this speed test measures the advertised speed.

The Breitbandmessung speed test is owned by the Bundesnetzagentur (the German Federal Network Agency). The first occurence on the Wayback Machine is from May 2016.

The Breitbandmessung speed test while testing the download speed

Before you run this speed test you have a accept the "Zweck und Rechtsgrundlage der Datenverarbeitung" (the purpose and legal basis of data processing) as shown below.

The Breitbandmessung speed test requires that you accept the Zweck und Rechtsgrundlage der Datenverarbeitung

The Breitbandmessung speed test is an original speed test developed by zafaco GmbH and is published under the AGPLv3 license at GitHub.

Pros

This Breitbandmessung speed test has the following pros:

  1. The speed test uses the same technology as the Desktop-App. The latter can be used formally to demonstrate that a German internet provider is consistently delivering a lower speed than contractually agreed upon
  2. The status of the speed test is clearly indicated
  3. The measurement results can be downloaded as a CSV file

The Breitbandmessung speed test showing the status Die Messung is abgeschlossen

Cons

This Breitbandmessung speed test has the following cons:

  1. The speed test is only available in German
  2. The speed test wants to know your location
  3. The speed test is slow
  4. It's not possible to perform a retest with a single button press. This makes sense, however, as a correct test requires at least 5 minutes between two tests

When to use Breitbandmessung

If you just want to know what your internet speed is, then use another speed test. Read our advice for a better speed test that suits your needs.

If you have a German internet provider and want to know if they're adhering to their contract, this browser-based speed test can provide some guidance. Officially, the Breitbandmessung Desktop-App should be used.

Keep in mind that your home network is usually the bottleneck.

How we tested

We have tested the Breitbandmessung 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: no
  2. Ad-free: yes
  3. Average download speed of 3 measurements: 127.1 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: no
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 15.37 (German instead of Englisg)
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 2
  8. Number of cookies: 6
  9. Number of measured features: 4
  10. Number of Wave errors: 2
  11. Observatory score: 40
  12. Tingtun score: -
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 803.09 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 136 seconds