Google's Internet speed test

https://www.google.com/search?q=speed+test Google's Internet speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the Google's Internet speed test speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because the measured speed is structurally too low.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 98.3 Mbps, we conclude that Google's Internet speed test is an relative accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 88/100).

Google's Internet speed test is a conservative speed test. That is, this speed test measures structural an internet speed lower than the advertised speed.

Google's Internet speed test is owned by Alphabet Inc. The first occurence of a speed test in the search results of Google is from July 2016.

This speed test appears in Google search results when you search for speed test.

Google's Internet speed test is shown in the search results when you search for 'speed test'

Please note that Google search results pages often display different results or results in a different order.

Google's Internet speed test while running in an overlay window Google's Internet speed test while running in an overlay window.

Google's Internet speed test is a based on the M-Lab speed test.

Pros

This Google's Internet speed test has the following pros:

  1. Easily found by searching for speed test
  2. Ad-free

Cons

This Google's Internet speed test has the following cons:

  1. The measured speed is structurally slightly too low

When to use Google's Internet 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 Google's Internet 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: 98.3 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: yes
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 28,27
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 5
  8. Number of cookies: 8
  9. Number of measured features: 2
  10. Number of Wave errors: 2
  11. Observatory score: 65
  12. Tingtun score: 98,24
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 507,06 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 72 seconds