https://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ The Speakeasy speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf Hans van der Graaf
In general, the Speakeasy speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test is relative slow and consumes a lot of data.
- Data efficiency: 32/100
- Time to complete: 18/100
- Security: 46/100
- Privacy friendly: 23/100
- Usability: 20/100
- Accessibility: 23/100
- Informative: 70/100
With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 101.9 Mbps, we conclude that the Speakeasy speed test is an accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 98/100).
The Speakeasy speed test is a mainstream speed test. That is, this speed test measures the advertised speed.
Speakeasy states (summer 2024) at their homepage that they are now Fusion Connect.
Fusion Connect is an Morgan Stanley company, hence Speakeasy is also a Morgan Stanley company.
According to the Wayback Machine Speakeasy offers their customers a speed test since August 2003. Since June 19, 2022 Speakeasy offers their customers an Ookla Clone.
A customized result page
That Speakeasy offers an Ookla clone is not remarkable.
However, it is remarkable that the customized results page differs greatly from Ookla's default results page.
Pros
This Speakeasy speed test has the following pros:
- The speed test is accurate
- There is a nice customized resultpage
Cons
This Speakeasy speed test has the following cons:
- The resultpage contains an add
- The speed test is relative slow
- A lot of data is required for a test
When to use Speakeasy
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.
If you want to ask Speakeasy what to do to get the advertised speed you have to test properly.
Preferably you use this speed test from Speakeasy 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 Speakeasy speed test in a standardized way. This makes speed tests easy to compare.
The following results form the basis for this speed test review:
- Abort/pause possible: no
- Ad-free: no
- Average download speed of 3 measurements: 101.9 Mbps
- Clear indication of the current focus: yes
- Correct back button behavior: yes
- Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 17.33
- Number of ACheckers known problems: 26
- Number of cookies: 7
- Number of measured features: 3
- Number of Wave errors: 3
- Observatory score: 25
- Tingtun score: 94.4
- Total data use of 3 measurements: 761.37 MiBs
- Total time to complete 3 tests: 2.13 seconds