Others also serve vast rural areas, where it’s more difficult and expensive to provide fast speeds. Some focus their efforts more in urban areas, where economies of scale make fast speeds easier and cheaper to provide. Not all providers serve the same geographic area. We place the most emphasis on the median speeds as those represent what most network providers’ customers will experience on a day-to-day basis. Speed Score uses a modified trimean to take speeds from the 10th percentile, 50th percentile (also known as the median), and 90th percentile, and combine them in a weighted average using a 1:2:1 ratio, respectively. Speed Score incorporates a measure of each provider’s download and upload speed to rank network speed performance (90% of the final Speed Score is attributed to download speed and the remaining 10% to upload speed because online experiences are typically more affected by download speed).

This makes it easier to compare mobile operators and ISPs on several measures of speed using one metric. We created Speed Score to fully account for the range of speeds a provider offers in a single metric. Speed is an important measure of an internet connection.

Internet performance metrics for mobile and fixed broadband Speed Score ™ Here are some quick links if you want to skip ahead: We’ll also discuss how this affects our upcoming U.S.

Today we’re offering an in-depth look at the definitions of our current metrics and how they can help you better understand your network. Editor’s note: A new, updated version of this article is here.Īt Ookla Ⓡ we are always researching new and better metrics to describe internet performance and coverage.

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