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LibreSpeed - Speed Test (librespeed.org)
submitted 3 months ago by mortimer@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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

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[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 116 points 3 months ago

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

No Australia

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 3 months ago

No bullshit, works as intended.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Australia doesn't exist btw. Or was it New Zealand?

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Email some companies to see if you can find a sponsor. To be fair Australia is a small country in terms of population

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 43 points 3 months ago

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 115 points 3 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.

[-] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 months ago

Thank you for LibreSpeed! <3
Been using it for a few years now,
and it's become my go-to network speed testing tool

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

Cool! Thanks for chiming in :)

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks for clarifying! Took a deeper look on my computer and I guess I learned that NoScript was misidentifying due to the cors or something. Just had to call it out before, as one can never be too careful these days :D

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 26 points 3 months ago

I mean, how else are you going to do a speed test?

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 months ago

I use iperf3 with Speedtest's servers, personally. But for a browser, yes JavaScript is needed.... But needing JavaScript files from like 20 different domains is typically a red flag for me on any site.

[-] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 28 points 3 months ago

It doesn't need javascript from "20 different domains", only a file called empty.php is fetched from those servers to measure the ping. The javascript is hosted on librespeed.org, which is under my control.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Speedtest cli

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I temporarily trusted the two domains that started with librespeed and it worked.

What the other 17 are for, I can't say.

Edit: looking at the server list, many of them match up with the serves you can select.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

It's open-source. You can always check if there is anything shady. If you can't read it, you can raise an issue on Github and wait for a response :)

[-] ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 3 months ago

You can also self host it via docker.

[-] Player2@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago

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

[-] skaffi@infosec.pub 49 points 3 months ago

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 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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 10 points 3 months ago

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 10 points 3 months ago

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

[-] phar@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Wow. Thank you!

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hello there, I didn't expect you to popup.

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 6 points 3 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

[-] Player2@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Certainly true in regards to real life use, but it's a good way to check that there isn't some issue on my end that's limiting the speed I am paying for

[-] Player2@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Forgot to mention earlier, Steam is an example of a real world situation where I do actually hit around 1.5 Gb/s down

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Speedtest.net, Steam, well populated torrents, and the Star Citizen patcher are the only things I've experienced my full downstream of 1.5Gbps with.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

You should run i2p and a Tor relay

[-] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

Depending on the country, if they don't give special preference to speedtest.net, they might just block it.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago

1611Mbps, do you live inside AWS‽

[-] Player2@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Fiber to the home is pretty neat. I could actually more than double the speed to 3Gb/s symmetrical for about $14 more per month, but frankly even the current speed is way more than I need. Will probably step it down a bit when my promotional discount ends.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It varies on your location. Also speed test.net is rigged and fully of bullshit (ads and tracking)

[-] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 1 points 3 months ago

Speedtest.net isn't rigged, I can exceed the speed I get on it with steam.

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[-] matthias@lemmy.klein.ruhr 18 points 3 months ago

Speedtest-Tracker or MySpeed are self-hosted solutions that can be extensively configured to send notifications when thresholds are exceeded or not reached.

[-] saddlebag@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

In prefer not feeding Ooklas data, openspeedtest doesn’t use their servers and is also selfhostable

[-] matthias@lemmy.klein.ruhr 7 points 3 months ago

MySpeed gives you the choice to also choose LibreSpeed.

[-] saddlebag@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I prefer OpenSpeedtest. It’s also selfhostable so none of this “no server” nonsense

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[-] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago

Thanks for this service, but whats the point if the server's cant handle their task?

[-] mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

They finally added dark theme!

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

It is just HTML

[-] StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago

It sucks, no Spain.

[-] aluminium@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

one of the most underrated tools i.m.o. I have a lighttpd webserver with librespeed on my usb and its such a great tool to check if a slow network is due to issues with the local network or the internet.

[-] Quik@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago

Cool application, thanks for sharing

[-] Xylight@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wow, the new FCC law made comcast raise my generous 10Mbps upload to 25Mbps! It's $80/mo for this shit.

[-] Gingernate@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Good Lord you should move haha

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

speedof.me

Works great

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Does it do bufferbloat?

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