https://www.centurylink.com/home/help/internet/internet-speed-test.html The CenturyLink speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf Hans van der Graaf
In general, the CenturyLink speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test is powered by Ookla's Speedtest.
Ookla's Speedtest and its clones 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 CenturyLink vs Ookla, we will focus on the differences between CenturyLink'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 CenturyLink speed test is owned by Lumen Technologies.
Some screenshots
Because CenturyLink created a speed test based on Ookla's Speedtest, we took multiple screenshots. The user interface is completely different from a 'standard' Ookla clone.
The CenturyLink speed test has a somewhat cluttered homepage.
The CenturyLink speed test while running don't have a progress bar.
When finished the CenturyLink speed test shows the download speed in the gauge.
The CenturyLink speed test shows some details (ping time and client's IP address) in an overlay window.
Pros
The CenturyLink speed test has the following pros:
- Ad-free
Cons
The CenturyLink speed test has the following cons:
- No link to Ookla's privacy policy
- Not possible to select a nearby local server
- Less informative (due to a own result page)
- A significant lower Tingtun score (89.16 instead of 100)
- Significant more Wave errors (49 instead of 2)
- Significant more AChecker known problems (63 instead of 0)
When to use CenturyLink
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 CenturyLink 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 CenturyLink speed test in a standardized way to determine the overall score. For the scoreboard (CenturyLink versus Ookla) we count the number of pros and cons.
The following results form the basis for this speed test review:
- Abort/pause possible: no
- Ad-free: yes
- Average download speed of 3 measurements: 101 Mbps
- Clear indication of the current focus: no
- Correct back button behavior: yes
- Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 18.06
- Number of ACheckers known problems: 63
- Number of cookies: 30
- Number of measured features: 2
- Number of Wave errors: 49
- Observatory score: 0
- Tingtun score: 89.16
- Total data use of 3 measurements: 706.67 MiBs
- Total time to complete 3 tests: 118 seconds