The SpeedSmart speed test

https://speedsmart.net/ The SpeedSmart speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the SpeedSmart speed test is not a recommended speed test. The speed test isn't that bad, but there are better and more accurate speed tests.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 102.6 Mbps, we conclude that the SpeedSmart speed test is an accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 94/100).

The SpeedSmart speed test is a mainstream speed test. That is, this speed test measures the advertised speed.

The SpeedSmart speed test is owned by SpeedSmart. The first occurence on the Wayback Machine is from March 2015.

The result page of the SpeedSmart speed test

When we tested with an advertised speed of 75 Mbps, a measured download speed of 75.53 Mbps is excellent.

SpeedSmart does exactly what you expect from a speed test. SpeedSmart was number 2 in the top 5 of accurate speed tests. Although nowadays SpeedSmart isn't in the top 10 of accurate speed tests.

The SpeedSmart speed test is an original speed test.

Pros

This SpeedSmart speed test has the following pros:

  1. The results are accurate
  2. It supports dark mode

Cons

This SpeedSmart speed test has the following cons:

  1. There are ads
  2. Some cookies are placed
  3. The speed test scores extreme low on accessibility

When to use SpeedSmart

If you just want to know what your internet speed is, then SpeedSmart is a fine speed test.

If you want to ask your ISP what to do to get the advertised speed you have to test properly.

Preferably you use the speed test from your ISP 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 SpeedSmart 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: 102.6 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: no
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 44.34
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 33
  8. Number of cookies: 4
  9. Number of measured features: 6
  10. Number of Wave errors: 84
  11. Observatory score: 5
  12. Tingtun score: 86.03
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 580.32 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 88.2 seconds