Connection Speed Test
Latency, download and upload measured against our own server. Best used as a before-and-after comparison rather than a headline number.
Takes about ten seconds and transfers a few megabytes.
Your previous runs
Kept in this browser only, so you can compare with and without a VPN.
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How to read the result
Latency is how long a round trip takes, and it matters more than throughput for anything interactive — a video call or a game feels the difference between 30 ms and 120 ms far more than a download does. Throughput is how much data moves per second, and it is what matters for large transfers and video quality.
A VPN adds to both, because encryption costs processing and a further hop costs distance. The useful measurement is the comparison: run this once on your normal connection, connect to SecureVPN, run it again, and look at the difference rather than the absolute numbers. Which protocol you use changes that difference, and the protocol comparison explains why.
One limitation worth stating plainly: this measures the path to one server in one location using a handful of browser requests. It is not a substitute for a dedicated speed-test service with servers near you and many parallel streams, and it will usually read lower than one. That is the trade for a measurement you can reason about.
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What exactly does this measure?
Three things between your browser and one SecureVPN server: round-trip latency sampled several times, download throughput from a stream of incompressible data, and upload throughput from data your browser sends and we immediately discard. It is measured in the browser, so it reflects what a web page can achieve rather than what a raw connection could.
Why is this slower than other speed tests?
Because it is honest about what it is. Consumer speed tests open many parallel connections to a server chosen for being physically near you, which measures peak capacity under ideal conditions. This runs a small number of requests to one server in one location, which is closer to what a real website transfer looks like. Use it for comparison — the same test before and after connecting to a VPN — not as a headline number for your internet plan.
Will a VPN slow my connection down?
Yes, somewhat, and any provider claiming otherwise is selling you something. Encryption costs a little processing, and routing through another server adds distance and therefore latency. The size of the cost depends mainly on how far away the server is and which protocol you use — our protocol comparison covers why WireGuard usually costs less than OpenVPN.
Is the uploaded data stored?
No. The upload endpoint reads the request body in chunks, counts the bytes, and discards them. Nothing is written to disk and nothing is logged beyond the ordinary web-server access line.
Why is there a limit on how often I can run it?
Each run transfers a few megabytes of real data, so the endpoints are rate limited per network. Without that, the tool becomes a way to consume our bandwidth rather than to measure yours.