08-09-2020, 10:49 PM
Thanks for your reply. I looked at some of your links. Yes, I believe I understand roughly how they work. My original post was reacting to the Terms of Service warning displayed on speedtest.net's site that states that they collect extra data.
I tried your good suggestion to try Alternative-to (should have thought of that myself). It led me to https://librespeed.org/. Its claims to be an opensource site. Its privacy statement admits it still collects telemetry, but claims it is only for their purposes. On the surface, it functions similarly to speedtest.net. Results are pretty different however, but that is not surprising as it likely does not have the same optimizations. For "real world" testing, I am simply going back and forth between the two and writing down the numbers. Yeah, not very scientific.
Yes, these sites are probably not very accurate, if for no other reason than that they take just a snapshot of a moment (besides the other reasons your sites suggest).
I will continue to try LibreSpeed, but am still open to suggestions.
Thanks again!
I tried your good suggestion to try Alternative-to (should have thought of that myself). It led me to https://librespeed.org/. Its claims to be an opensource site. Its privacy statement admits it still collects telemetry, but claims it is only for their purposes. On the surface, it functions similarly to speedtest.net. Results are pretty different however, but that is not surprising as it likely does not have the same optimizations. For "real world" testing, I am simply going back and forth between the two and writing down the numbers. Yeah, not very scientific.
Yes, these sites are probably not very accurate, if for no other reason than that they take just a snapshot of a moment (besides the other reasons your sites suggest).
I will continue to try LibreSpeed, but am still open to suggestions.
Thanks again!