The Meter.net speed test

https://www.meter.net/ The Meter.net speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the Meter.net speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because there are ads and a lot of cookies.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 99.5 Mbps, we conclude that the Meter.net speed test is an accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 97/100).

The Meter.net speed test is a mainstream speed test. In other words, the median of the measurements is roughly the advertised speed.

The Meter.net speed test is owned by Adam Haken European VAT number: CZ8106023189 (A check with VIES is possible). Meter.net is one of the oldest speed tests there is. Meter.net is founded in 2001.

A screen shot of the Meter.net speed test running in the Brave browser Meter.net has a clear animated call to action. There are a lot of ads (not shown here because we use a secure browser). Meter.net supports dark mode excellent.

The Meter.net speed test is an original speed test.

Pros

Meter.net is a 'sympathetic' speedtest. The reasons? The following pros:

  1. It is a project of a person (Adam Haken), instead of a company
  2. Attention has been paid to details
    1. The website is available in multiple languages
    2. There is an easy switch between a light and a dark theme
    3. There is an easy to understand Privacy policy and terms of use page
    4. There is a neat Stats page
    5. There is a web-plugin service to add a clone of this speed test at your own site (working example)

Cons

This Meter.net speed test has the following cons:

  1. relatively many cookies are used
  2. there are ads

When to use Meter.net

If you just want to try another internet speed, then give this oldie a try.

How we tested

We have tested the Meter.net 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: no
  2. Ad-free: no
  3. Average download speed of 3 measurements: 99.5 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: no
  5. Correct back button behavior: no
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 41.35
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 16
  8. Number of cookies: 13
  9. Number of measured features: 2
  10. Number of Wave errors: 3
  11. Observatory score: 65
  12. Tingtun score: 100
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 355.68 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 73.8 seconds