See what your connection actually delivers.
Measure your speed, then find out how far you really are from the services you use every day. No signup, no plugins, nothing to install.
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Latency to major services
Speed tells you how much data fits down the pipe. Latency tells you how long it takes to get there — and that is what you actually feel in games, video calls, and every click on a website. A page load makes dozens of round trips before it finishes, so 200 ms of latency costs you far more than the numbers suggest.
How to read these numbers
The colour of each result is a rough band, not a verdict:
- Under 80 ms — everything feels immediate. Fine for competitive gaming and video calls.
- 80 to 200 ms — comfortable for browsing and streaming; noticeable in fast-paced games.
- Over 200 ms — pages feel sluggish even when the connection is fast, because every round trip costs.
A single slow service among fast ones usually points at routing or peering to that provider, not at your line. If everything is slow together, look at your own connection first — the troubleshooting guide below starts with the cheapest checks.
Distance sets a floor no provider can beat: light in fibre covers roughly 200 km per millisecond, and a round trip pays that twice. A server on another continent will never answer in 20 ms.
How this is measured, and what the number really means
A browser cannot send ICMP packets, so this is not the same as ping
on the command line. Each probe is a real HTTPS request to a tiny file on the
target's own network, and we time how long it takes to come back.
That means the figure includes DNS, the TCP handshake, the TLS handshake and one HTTP round trip — so it reads higher than a command-line ping, often by a good margin. The first sample pays for all that setup and is thrown away; later samples reuse the open connection and land much closer to the true round-trip time. We report the fastest of those.
Comparing targets against each other, or watching the same target over days, is
meaningful and useful. Comparing the absolute number against ping
output is not.
Nothing is sent to these services beyond an ordinary anonymous request for a small static file, with cookies and credentials switched off.
Leaderboard
Every signed-in run counts, and only your best one for the day is ranked. The score is the average round-trip time across the services that answered, so a low number means a genuinely fast route, not one lucky probe.
Latest news
Changes to the site, and notes on how it measures things.