The TestMyInternetSpeed speed test

TestMyInternetSpeed (TMIS) ☆☆☆☆☆

The TestMyInternetSpeed speed test (TMIS) is a crappy website which, under the guise of -we offer a speed test- only wants to obtain as many page views as possible. When you want to use a speed test, you better use a more accurate speed test.

Nevertheless, if we look purely at the speed test, these are our findings:

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 103.3 Mbps, we conclude that the TestMyInternetSpeed speed test is a relative accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 88/100).

The TestMyInternetSpeed speed test is a ambiguous speed test. That is, this speed test measures structural an internet speed somewhere between the the advertised speed and your your true internet speed.

We don't know who ownes the TestMyInternetSpeed speed test. The first occurence on the Wayback Machine is from September 2019.

The TestMyInternetSpeed homepage contains a lot of ads The TestMyInternetSpeed homepage contains a lot of ads

The TestMyInternetSpeed result page contains four gauges (Download, Upload, Ping and Jitter) The TestMyInternetSpeed result page contains four gauges (Download, Upload, Ping and Jitter)

The TestMyInternetSpeed speed test is probably based on the LibreSpeed speed test.

Pros

This TestMyInternetSpeed speed test has the following pros:

  1. The speed test is data efficient

Cons

This TestMyInternetSpeed speed test has the following cons:

  1. The results are ambiguous
  2. There are a lot of ads
  3. There is no option to do a retest (you have to refresh the webpage to test again)
  4. There is no indication that the speed test has finished

When to use TestMyInternetSpeed

There is no reason to use TestMyInternetSpeed. It is a crappy website that is not worth your visit. If you just want to know what your internet speed is, then use another speed test. Read our advice for a serious speed test that suits your needs.

Why crappy?

TestMyInternetSpeed does keyword stuffing. For example, TestMyInternetSpeed suggests that they link to over 400 differtent speed tests of ISP's. However that is not the case. All links lead to similar pages of TestMyInternetSpeed which contain for example the following text:

(...) Thinking of how to test XFINITY internet speed? Wondering what XFINITY speed test would be best to measure internet speed that your XFINITY internet service provider offers? No matter who is your internet service provider, i.e. whether it is XFINITY or any other ISP, the best thing about Speed Test Tool is that it displays unbiased results for the internet speed test performed over any internet service provider and not only speed test XFINITY. (...)

There is only keyword stuffing and all links point to TestMyInternetSpeed itself. In fact, there is no link to the Xfinity Speed Test at all.

Sorry, but we don't want to link to such a crappy website.

TestMyInternetSpeed has over 400 links to itself

How we tested

We have tested the TestMyInternetSpeed 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: 103.3 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: no
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 35.08
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 4
  8. Number of cookies: 10
  9. Number of measured features: 3
  10. Number of Wave errors: 0
  11. Observatory score: 25
  12. Tingtun score: 99.64
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 200,19 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 90 seconds