The Cloudflare speed test

https://speed.cloudflare.com/ The Cloudflare speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf Pop

In general, the Cloudflare speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test is very slow. That's a pity, because Cloudflare is among the best in many other areas. It is not without reason that Cloudflare is a popular speed test.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 99.2 Mbps, we conclude that the Cloudflare speed test is a relative accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 96/100).

Cloudflare is a miscellaneous speed test. Earlier tests suggests that Cloudflare is a mainstream speed test, however with 99.2 Mbps it is a little conservative.

The Cloudflare speed test is owned by Cloudflare, Inc. The Cloudflare speed test became available in May 2020. This makes Cloudflare a relative new speed test.

Cloudflare is measuring the download- and uploadspeed multiple times. When we test the Cloudflare speed test, the 100kB, 1MB, 10MB and 25MB download tests were executed. The corresponding results are presented in clear graphs.

The 100kB, 1MB, 10MB and 25MB download measurements performed by the Cloudflare speed test

These graphs indicate that the larger the download, the more accurate the measurement.

The Cloudflare speed test is an original speed test.

Pros

This Cloudflare speed test has the following pros:

  1. A lot of information is shown
  2. There is a neat interface
  3. The speed test is very privacy friendly
  4. It is a very secure speed test
  5. It has an excellent usability

Cons

This Cloudflare speed test has the following cons:

  1. It takes a long, long time to complete the test
  2. The speed test uses more MB's as promised

More MB's as promised

When you start Cloudflare, the following banner is shown:

The banner shown when you start the Cloudflare speed test states that a speed test can consume up to 200MB of data

However, when we perform three tests in a row, we measured that 522.31 MiB was received and 160.57 MiB was sent.

In other words, 524.47 MB was received and 168.38 MB was sent.

Per test 174.82 MB was received and 56.13 MB was sent.

174.82 MB is lower than Cloudflare's upper limit of 200 MB. However the total number of data (230.95 MB) is higher than Cloudflare's upper limit of 200 MB.

We therefore conclude that the Cloudflare speed test uses more data than indicated.

When to use Cloudflare

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.

However when you need indepth information regarding your internet speed, Cloudflare is a good choice.

How we tested

We have tested the Cloudflare 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: 99.2 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: yes
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 34.91
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 2
  8. Number of cookies: 0
  9. Number of measured features: 6
  10. Number of Wave errors: 1
  11. Observatory score: 70
  12. Tingtun score: 81.33
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 682.88 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 112 seconds