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Free and Open Source Speed Test. No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.

No Australia

No bullshit, works as intended.

[–] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The NoScript list terrifies me a little though... Not sure what's going on there, but that's a lot of JavaScript lol.

[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 2 points 2 months ago

Hi, I'm the original author of LibreSpeed. When you load the website it downloads a list of servers and tries all of them to see which one has the lowest ping, that's what you're seeing.

[–] Player2@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately doesn't quite reach the speeds speedtest.net can hit, but still cool to have a tool like this

[–] skaffi@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ISPs give special preference to speedtest.net, so that their metrics will look better. Which means it rarely reflects actual reality. Theres a good chance this test is closer to the actual speeds you're getting everywhere but on speedtest.net.

[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I'm the author of the project. The servers are simply overloaded af unfortunately. It's a fairly popular project and we don't have enough servers to support this many concurrent users.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the project. Maybe you can have an indicator saying

  • Server load level = 4/5 Measured speed might not be indicative of true speed
  • Server load level = 2/5 Measured speed is close to true speed

This could set an expectation for the users of the side

[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 2 points 2 months ago

Good idea, I'll add it to the to-do list for the next major release.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hello there, I didn't expect you to popup. (Nice project BTW)

Would it be possible to get more companies to sponsor it? It seems like it is free advertising especially for ISPs (as long as they don't favor IPs)

[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 1 points 2 months ago

Occasionally some cloud providers or ISPs chime in and offer their servers to the public. If you have an LS server, you can submit it here: https://librespeed.org/submit