The Simple Speed Test Online speed test

The Simple Speed Test Online speed test ★★★☆☆

In general, the Simple Speed Test Online speed test was not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test was not accurate at all.

 

With an adverstised speed of 125 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 54.2 Mbps, we concluded that the Simple Speed Test Online speed test was not an accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 20/100).

The Simple Speed Test Online speed test was a miscellaneous speed test. That is, this speed test measured structural an incorrect speed.

It was not clear who owns the Simple Speed Test Online speed test. The first occurence on the Wayback Machine is from December, 2007.

Hence, this speed test was an oldie.

In the past, this speed test was related to www.my-speedtest.com (nowadays this website no longer exists).

The homepage of the Simple Speed Test Online speed test The homepage of the Simple Speed Test Online speed test.

The results of the Simple Speed Test Online speed test The results were shown in three different units, namely bps, kbps and Mbps.

This speed test is that old, that nowadays the prefixes used are incorrect. kbps should be read as kibi-bits-per-second and Mbps should be read as mebi-bits-per-second.

Loading an image

This speed test measured your internet speed by loading an image of 309 MB (7680x4320 pixels) (Gone) in the background.

A scaled down version of the image used to test your internet speed shows a red McLaren 720S parked near palm trees by the water This is a scaled-down image of the original image used in this speed test.

The Simple Speed Test Online speed test was an original speed test.

Pros

This Simple Speed Test Online speed test had the following pros:

  1. It was an original speed test
  2. Fast
  3. Ad-free

Cons

This Simple Speed Test Online speed test had the following cons:

  1. The speed test was inaccurate
  2. The home page was full of bullshit about what this speed test is supposed to do and how it works
  3. No option to do a re-test
  4. There were some cookies (probably due to the Yandex.Metrika counter)

When to use Simple Speed Test Online

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 Simple Speed Test Online 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: 54.2 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: no
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: - (there is no privacy policy)
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 0
  8. Number of cookies: 4
  9. Number of measured features: 0
  10. Number of Wave errors: 0
  11. Observatory score: 30
  12. Tingtun score: - (Tingtun is down)
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 22.20 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 10 seconds