The Optimum speed test

https://www.optimum.com/internet/speed-test The Optimum speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf Hans van der Graaf Ookla

In general, the Optimum speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test is 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 Optimum vs Ookla, we will focus on the differences between Optimum'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 Optimum speed test is owned by CSC Holdings, LLC which belongs to Altice USA.

Focus on accessibility

Optimum has done a lot to make their site accessible. When you press tab you get the option "Skip to Content". Besides that you will find in the lower right corner an option to do accessibility adjustments as shown below.

Pros

The Optimum speed test has the following pros:

1. Ad-free
2. A significant higher Observatory score than Ookla (70 instead of 5)
3. Skip navigation button available

Cons

The Optimum speed test has the following cons:

1. No link to Ookla's privacy policy
2. Significant more cookies than Ookla (46 instead of 21)
3. Not possible to select a nearby local server
4. A significant lower Tingtun score (54.76 instead of 100)
5. You have to prove that you are human

When to use Optimum

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 Optimum what to do to get the advertised speed you have to test properly.

Preferably you use this speed test and perform this test on several days.

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

How we tested

We have tested the Optimum 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: yes
3. Average download speed of 3 measurements: 101.4 Mbps
4. Clear indication of the current focus: yes
5. Correct back button behavior: no
6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 26.26
7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 1
8. Number of cookies: 46
9. Number of measured features: 5
10. Number of Wave errors: 2
11. Observatory score: 70
12. Tingtun score: 54.76
13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 766,02 MiBs
14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 118 seconds