The Gcore Speed test

https://speedtest.gcore.com/ The Gcore Speed test 0 2/5 stars ★★☆☆☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the Gcore Speed test speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because the Gcore Speed test is a ambiguous speed test. Fortunately there are more accurate speed tests.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 106.5 Mbps, we conclude that the Gcore Speed test is not an accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 20/100).

The Gcore Speed test is a ambiguous speed test. That is, this speed test measures structural an internet speed somewhere between the the advertised speed and your your true internet speed.

The Gcore Speed test is -unsurprisingly- owned by Gcore. The first occurence on the Wayback Machine is from January 2023.

The homepage of the Gcore Speed test The homepage of the Gcore Speed test

The Gcore Speed test while running The Gcore Speed test while running, note the orange Run test button is now replace with a white Abort button.

The Gcore Speed test result page The Gcore Speed test result page

Pros

This Gcore Speed test has the following pros:

  1. the Gcore Speed test is an original speed test
  2. there are no ads
  3. there is a nice progress indicator
  4. it is possible to abort the speed test
  5. the results can easily be copied to the clipboard

Copy to clipboard

A nice feature of the Gcore Speed test is that the results can easily be copied to the clipboard (even when the test is running).

The clipboard will then contain the following for example:

Download: 106.27 Mbps
Upload: 26.57 Mbps
Ping: 15.00 ms
Jitter: 1.43 ms

Cons

This Gcore Speed test has the following cons:

  1. The results are ambiguous

When to use Gcore Speed test

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.

How we tested

We have tested the Gcore 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: 106.5 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: no
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 18.80
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 10
  8. Number of cookies: 26
  9. Number of measured features: 3
  10. Number of Wave errors: 6
  11. Observatory score: 0
  12. Tingtun score: 94.85
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 298.65 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 64 seconds