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A Comparative Analysis of Ookla Speedtest and Measurement Lab’s Network Diagnostic Test (NDT7)

Kyle MacMillan, Tarun Mangla, James Saxon, Nicole P. Marwell, & Nick Feamster

ACM SIGMETRICS

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Abstract

The first rigorous side-by-side comparison of the two most common speed-test platforms — Ookla Speedtest and M-Lab’s NDT7 — examining how they differ in methodology, user base, and measured outcomes, and what that means for research and policy.

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MacMillan, K., Mangla, T., Saxon, J., Marwell, N. P., & Feamster, N. (2023). A Comparative Analysis of Ookla Speedtest and Measurement Lab’s Network Diagnostic Test (NDT7). ACM SIGMETRICS. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3579448
BibTeX
@inproceedings{macmillan2023comparative,
  author = {MacMillan, Kyle and Mangla, Tarun and Saxon, James and Marwell, Nicole P. and Feamster, Nick},
  title = {A Comparative Analysis of Ookla Speedtest and Measurement Lab’s Network Diagnostic Test (NDT7)},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGMETRICS},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3579448}
}