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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderNice. Every speed test should have a "latency under load" graph, because we can't fight bufferbloat if we can't see it. DSLReports had the first bufferbloat test I'm aware of, but it's broken now. Another example is https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat Ideally this problem should be fixed by ISPs and modem manufacturers, but individuals can use OpenWrt with luci-app-sqm, at least when the connection has a predictable speed limit. An option to choose between IPv4/IPv6 (or test both) would probably be useful.
Cloudflare: 455 Mbps down / 73.1 Mbps up / Latency 13.0 ms / Jitter 2.26 ms / Server: Ashburn via IPv6. Netflix (fast.com): 790 Mbps down / 950 Mbps up / Latency 8 ms unloaded, 12 ms loaded / Server: Ashburn via IPv6. Ookla (speedtest.net): 928 Mbps down / 938 Mbps up / Ping 1 ms / Server: Raleigh via IPv4. DSL Reports (http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest): 611 Mbps down / 929 Mbps up / ping 16-41ms / Servers: Houston, Dallas, Newcastle DE…
This seems to be superior in many ways to these competitors (please add others): https://www.speedtest.net/ https://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ (USA) https://performance.cira.ca/ (Canada)
Some previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23313657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37073885
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1205
- Total comments
- 365
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-26 | Speed.cloudflare.comFirst breakout | manigandham | 498 | 151 |
| 2021-09-20 | Internet Speed Test – Measure Network Performance – Cloudflare | shekhardesigner | 36 | 6 |
| 2023-06-30 | Cloudflare Speed Test | amirmasoudabdol | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-08-10 | Speed TestBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | RadixDLT | 664 | 207 |
| 2025-09-25 | Internet Speed TestHall induction | Bender | 2 | 1 |
| 2026-05-30 | Internet Speed Test by Cloudflare | gurjeet | 3 | 0 |