The Verizon speed test

https://www.verizon.com/speedtest/ The Verizon speed test 0 2/5 stars ★★☆☆☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the Verizon speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test measures too low a speed. Fortunately there are more accurate speed tests.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 88.3 Mbps, we conclude that the Verizon speed test is not an accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 20/100).

The Verizon speed test is a conservative speed test. That is, this speed test measures structural an internet speed lower than the advertised speed.

The Verizon speed test is owned by Verizon Communications Inc.. The first speed test that could be found on the Wayback Machine is from June 2013. This version is from March 2023

The Verizon speed test starts with this screen The Verizon speed test starts with this screen

The Verizon speed test runs in a overlay-window The Verizon speed test runs in a overlay-window

The Verizon speed test does at the result page not offer a option to do a retest immediately The Verizon speed test does at the results page not offer a option to do a retest immediately

Pros

This Verizon speed test has the following pros:

  1. it is an original speed test
  2. it is possible to abort the speed test by closing the overlay-window

Cons

This Verizon speed test has the following cons:

  1. this speed test measures too low a speed
  2. it takes a long time to complete the speed test
  3. a lot of data is required for a test
  4. to start a retest you first have to close the results page
  5. a lot of cookies are placed

Too slow speed due to server location?

Verizon automatically selects an American test server location while we test from the Netherlands.

Previous tests showed that the server location has no significant effect on the speed. The server location will have an effect on the latency, but that is something different than the speed or rather the bandwidth that we measure.

So we can only conclude that Verizon structurally measures a speed that is too low.

When to use Verizon

If you want to ask Verizon Communications Inc. what to do to get the advertised speed you have to test properly.

Preferably you use this speed test from your ISP Verizon Communications Inc. and perform this test on several days.

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

In all other cases, read our advice for a better speed test that suits your needs.

How we tested

We have tested the Verizon 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: yes
  2. Ad-free: yes
  3. Average download speed of 3 measurements: 88.3 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: yes
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 20.94
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 1
  8. Number of cookies: 44
  9. Number of measured features: 3
  10. Number of Wave errors: 0
  11. Observatory score: 10
  12. Tingtun score: 99.68
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 678.79 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 172 seconds