Safe, Private, Easy Way to Test Connection Speed?

[Moltke]

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 never really gave too much thought but you got me curious so I used this site https://tosdr.org/# which you can use to check some of those hidden policies you didn't read/know about, for instance, I checked those of speedtest.net and this is what I got:

× This service can view your browser history
Generated through the annotate view

+ You can request access and deletion of personal data
Generated through the annotate view

It doesn't look that bad if you ask me, I mean, according to that you can request them to delete whatever personal data they have on you. Unfortunately, it doesn't have anything on https://librespeed.org/ so I couldn't check that one.