Often you feel that your internet speed is too slow or the web pages load very slowly. All these factors depends on the speed of the broadband or dial-up connection that you use to access internet.
A web page is nothing but a collection of data it might consist of text, images, doccuments, videos etc. All these consume some space on the web page which is measured in bits/bytes. Size of the web page depends on the amount of content present on that page. More is the content more is the size of webpage and more time it takes to load on a browser.
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Internet speed is measured as the time taken for a content to load on a page per one second. If the size of a page is 50kb and if it takes 5 seconds to load then the speed is 10 kilobytes/second. But the loading time also depends on some other factors like load on the page that is number of users requesting for that page at that time, type of content present in that page, browser used to load that page etc. But mostly the speed depends on the internet service provider at what speed it is transferring data.
You can always check the speed of your internet service, there are many dedicated softwares and websites for this purpose. These websites check your internet speed by loading some test data and calculate your net speed, which is most of the times accurate. You can rely on these websites or softwares to check internet speed for free.
Below are some suggestions to test internet speed on your device or machine.
- speed test by ookla is one the most popularly sites to test internet speed.
- Offers free internet speed check, measures both upload and download - speeds using your ip address and displays the same.
- Also made available as mobile applications in platforms like android, ios etc.
Download speedtest from google play for free
Bandwidthpalace.com
- Bandwidthpalace is another website to test your internet speed.
- Checks both upload and download speed.
- Works on desktops, laptops, mobiles and tablets.
- Not available in application platforms for download.
- Works without flash enabled on browser.
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