We compared Real Speed ★★★★★ with Down at a Glance ★★★★★ and concluded that Down at a Glance is a better speed test than Real Speed.
This is mainly because the high accuracy, data efficiency, and speed make Down at a Glance a better speed test than Real Speed.
If you want to measure your router speed, you'd better use Real Speed.
The radar chart above is based on the results of our standardized speed test test. The results speak for themselves.
Strengths of Real Speed
The strongest point of Real Speed is without a doubt that this speed test performs two speed tests. One from the router and one from the device in use. Both speed tests are accurate.
This gives you direct insight into whether your ISP delivers the promised speed. This makes it immediately clear what the cause is of any performance problems.
Real Speed starts up instantly, doesn't show ads, and seems fairly frugal in terms of data usage (although we can only determine this at 50%, as we couldn't determine data usage during the router test).
Strengths of Down at a Glance
Down at a Glance is accurate, data efficient, fast, secure, privacy-friendly and accessible.
Down at a Glance uses the same NDT7 code as the M-Lab speed test.
The speed test is ad- and cookie-free, data-efficient and highly accessible using standard, no-frills HTML5.
Down at a Glance makes it clear in advance how much data is needed for a speed test. In addition, Down at a Glance has the unique feature that you can specify how long a speed test may take.
Our recommendation
Based on what we know about speed tests, if we had to choose between these two speed tests, we would choose Down at a Glance over Real Speed. In particular, Down at a Glance's high scores in accuracy, data efficiency and speed have a major influence on this choice.