The Frontier Internet Speed Test Tool

The Frontier Internet Speed Test Tool (Gone) ★★★★☆

In general, the Frontier speed test was not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test was a clone of 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 Frontier vs Ookla, we focused on the differences between Frontier'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 Frontier Internet Speed Test Tool was owned by Frontier Communications Parent Inc. The first occurence on the Wayback Machine of a speed test at this URL is from April 2009.

Frontier had neatly designed the speed test in "Frontier Red".

Pros

The Frontier speed test had the following pros:

1. Ad-free

Cons

The Frontier speed test hand the following cons:

1. No link to Ookla's privacy policy
2. Not possible to select a nearby local server
3. A significant lower Tingtun score (87.72 instead of 100)
4. Significant more Wave errors (7 instead of 2)
5. Significant more AChecker known problems (21 instead of 0)

Unapproachable privacy policy

The speed test had a pop-up below the fold in a hard to read font that says something about the Ookla (?) privacy policy. You could close the pop-up, but you couldn't read this privacy policy.

When you tried to go to the privacy policy of Frontier, you got a 403 error.

When to use Frontier

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 Frontier Communications Parent Inc what to do to get the advertised speed you have to test properly.

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

How we tested

We have tested the Frontier Internet Speed Test Tool 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: 100.5 Mbps
4. Clear indication of the current focus: yes
5. Correct back button behavior: no
6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: -
7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 21
8. Number of cookies: 17
9. Number of measured features: 5
10. Number of Wave errors: 7
11. Observatory score: 0
12. Tingtun score: 87.72
13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 814.08 MiBs
14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 120 seconds