The WhistleOut speed test

https://www.whistleout.ca/Internet/Speed-Test WhistleOut Canada 0 5/5 stars ★★★★★ Hans van der Graaf https://www.whistleout.com.au/Broadband/Speed-Test WhistleOut Australia 0 5/5 stars ★★★★★ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the WhistleOut Canada and the WhistleOut Australia speed tests are recommended speed tests, mainly because these speed test are fast and accurate.

Both speed tests are remarkably similar. However, we slightly prefer the Australian version. Oddly enough, it scores higher on accessibility. Therefore, we're showing the Australian version's features here. The Canadian features are almost identical. It just scores lower on accessibility.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 100.2 Mbps, we conclude that the WhistleOut speed test is an accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 99/100).

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

The WhistleOut (Australia) speed test is owned by Whistleout pty ltd. The first occurence of this Australian version on the Wayback Machine is from 2019.

The Australian and the Canadian version of the WhistleOut speed test. Find the differences ... The Australian version of the WhistleOut Speedtest is almost the same as the Canadian version The Canadian version of the WhistleOut Speedtest is almost the same as the Australian version

Clicking the "Show More Info" button gives the latency and starts the upload test.

The WhistleOut speed test is a clone of the M-Lab speed test.

Pros

This WhistleOut speed test has the following pros:

  1. The speed test can be started immediately (without first clicking away the cookie banner)
  2. Initial only the download speed is measured
  3. Accurate
  4. Fast
  5. Ad-free

Cons

This WhistleOut speed test has the following cons:

  1. Before displaying the speed test, Cloudflare requires us to show that we are a human
  2. There is no link to M-Labs privacy policy

When to use WhistleOut

The WhistleOut speed test is a fine speed test -when you have proven that you are human-. In our opinion it is even better than the original because intial only the download speed is measured.

How we tested

We have tested the WhistleOut speed test in a standardized way. This makes speed tests easy to compare.

The following results, of the Australian version, form the basis for this speed test review:

  1. Abort/pause possible: no
  2. Ad-free: yes
  3. Average download speed of 3 measurements: 100.2 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: yes
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 33.59
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: - (The available memory is not enough to process this size of html)
  8. Number of cookies: 19
  9. Number of measured features: 0
  10. Number of Wave errors: 1
  11. Observatory score: 75
  12. Tingtun score: 93.32
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 363.68 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 36 seconds