The Which Broadband Checker speed test

https://broadbandtest.which.co.uk/ The Which Broadband Checker speed test 0 2/5 stars ★★☆☆☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the Which Broadband Checker speed test is not a recommended speed test, this because this speed test is inaccurate.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 121.7 Mbps, we conclude that the Which Broadband Checker speed test is not an accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 20/100).

This speed test is categorised as Miscellaneous because the results are higher as expected.

With an advertised speed of 100 Mbps any reading above 112 Mbps is ridiculous,

The Which? result page

The Which Broadband Checker speed test is owned by Which Limited. The first occurence on the Wayback Machine is from June 2017.

The Which Broadband Checker speed test is an original speed test.

Pros

This Which Broadband Checker speed test has no pros.

Cons

This Which Broadband Checker speed test has the following cons:

  1. Inaccurate
  2. You have to reload the page to do a retest

When to use Which Broadband Checker

If you want to verify our findings, then you have to use the Which Broadband Checker. In any other case read our advice for a better speed test that suits your needs.

How we tested

We have tested the Which Broadband Checker 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: 121.7 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: yes
  5. Correct back button behavior: no
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 43.79
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 3
  8. Number of cookies: 3
  9. Number of measured features: 2
  10. Number of Wave errors: 9
  11. Observatory score: 65
  12. Tingtun score: 95.74
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 519.45 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 90 seconds