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Hey there, I discovered this website today looking for alternatives to Ookla's speed test and I like it. My only complain is that every server is foreign to my country (IT), thus resulting in high latency, I hope new servers will be added and among those some (or at least one) will also be located in Italy, but whatever. So far I've been testing my connection with the server located in GB and the one located in Germany, both of them pretty much good (except my connection yesterday and today has been slowed down because we're moving to a new house and the Internet line transfer has started), I can't wait to try this speed test on my LTE connection tomorrow morning in the other house (where the signal is much stronger) and more tests in different areas of my town. Said that, good luck for the website and please consider adding an Italian server aswell so we can get some lower latency tests too

Let me ask you this... where are most of the websites you visit located? Inside or outside Italy? Looks to me like you have decent latency to GB https://testmy.net/rt/Elia1995&miq=13 - one in there that took an extra long time but it's an outlier. I doubt your ping was affected when that reading was taken. You have potential to get a better response time to DE... it's physically closer to you but maybe your routing to the DE server isn't ideal. https://testmy.net/rt/Elia1995&miq=17 --- we know that you can obviously do better because of your GB results in this test. If you want to be real with yourself you should probably be testing outside of Italy. Having said that, knowing your speed using TMN on a server closer is important information and can help provide the best baseline to work from. I have one 13ms from my house in the same city I'm in. It's my preferred server now. Comparing those results against the other servers provides me a much better picture. I have a new program I'm releasing soon that will enable everyone the ability to host their own TestMy.net. By default it runs off TMN's network of servers but there will be an option (for those who want to participate) where you can host the test wherever you'd like. I require that the host hand over the keys to the server so TMN can properly assure that there is no tampering. Tampering that could affect the results can occur on the server level, to keep everything honest I'm requiring full root access. There are already corporate hosts who've agreed to these terms so I feel like if they're willing... I should just give the option to everyone. By the way, it's 100% free to everyone and I'm offering it without ads. The basic principal is that you cut and paste a small snippet of HTML code into your site and instantly have TestMy.net housed within your websites design. It's not a lite or beta version... it's the full power of TMN. ...very soon. I'm working on the EULA right now. Hosts who opt in will become part of a new list of servers, many will remain private. You may have an option in Italy sooner or later... or you can put one online yourself. Minimum requirements are a Xen VPS with 512MB RAM and 1000 Mbps uplink to the Internet. $5/month in many instances. When I release this I'll put a list of hosting providers up to help you find one. If you put a server online and make it public... many people in your area will appreciate it.

You're welcome, it's my pleasure. I appreciate the kind words. Looks like I'll have to work harder to help you understand that this already IS the best testing site... not just one of them. Where do you think the other speed test sites got the idea from?

I like your train of thought but I think this test is different from what you're thinking. It's not a bandwidth test and has less to do with your upstream and downstream connection speed and more to do with its quality. You're not really transferring data, put it this way... minus headers you're only transferring a little over 100 bytes of data each time that test runs. What the results tell you is how quickly you're able to respond to requests. Quicker is better, RT results are shown in milliseconds so we want a low value here. Testing from the same location to the same locale you can have vastly different results depending on the device used and connection quality. For instance... iPhone 6, Verizon Wireless - ~140 ms (in some areas less, in some areas it can be 100's of ms higher) iPhone 6, Comcast cable - ~30ms Desktop on Comcast (same connection above) - ~20ms Laptop wifi - 30-60 ms As I get into a worse connection area or further from my router (or my providers towers when I'm on LTE) the time goes up. If the connection has to jump through more hoops to get to you (e.g. more hops, lower quality hops or hops/servers that are further away)... it will slow down the Response Time. I've found that these numbers always directly correlate with performance. One that really sold me (it made me want to release this) was recently when I did a modem swap. When I put the (SB6183) 16 channel modem on my RT dropped by about 4ms... it was consistent and to me an obvious change. When I swapped back to the 6141 (which I actually prefer overall) the RT immediately jumped back up to exactly what it was before. (I chose the slower responding modem because it ramped up faster... if I was more of a gamer I may have gone the other way for the better RT, which would reflect a better ping.) Here's what you don't want to see >> https://testmy.net/rt/tktnsma1 or https://testmy.net/rt/markjfine or... anyone else on any satellite connection (those examples are Hughes Net customers -- they have such poor RT because their connection has to travel into space and back. Light is fast... but it's not instant.) Again, this isn't ping. I've seen where ping is unaffected but RT is obviously not what it should be. ... it always reflects performance. The times when I've seen that my browser is responding slowly, which is also reflected in speed test results. But then I do a normal ping and it doesn't show me anything. (e.g. leading me in some cases to find that one of my million open browser tabs was bugged out, causing the browser to respond much slower. Close and re-open, RT returns to where it should be.) So, this test is fundamentally different from a ping test. It's similar, if the RT if affected the ping is also often affected but sometimes not. Just keep in mind, a discrepancy is most often a clue to an underlying issue.

excellent "response time" to the question and thanks very much! a very good answer to the question. i'm not sure that i would cut the time in half however, since the upstream and downstream can be rather different, though i don't know how you would measure the difference. and yes, i believe that many other things can affect your response time test. packet and/or transaction size, upstream vs. downstream pipe, data manipulation (if any), etc. all things considered, i think this is an excellent addition to the status report. good luck with the further development. p.s.: many thanks for this web site in general. it is indeed one of the best test sites (if not the best) available. i have found it's accuracy and consistency to be far above the others and i greatly appreciate your efforts.