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  2. Speedtest.net - Wikipedia

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    Internet speed test. License. Freeware. Website. www .speedtest .net. Speedtest.net, also known as Speedtest by Ookla, is a web service that provides free analysis of Internet access performance metrics, such as connection data rate and latency. It is the flagship product of Ookla, a web testing and network diagnostics company founded in 2006 ...

  3. Browser speed test - Wikipedia

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    Browser speed test. A browser speed test is a computer benchmark that scores the performance of a web browser, by measuring the browser's efficiency in completing a predefined list of tasks. In general the testing software is available online, located on a website, where different algorithms are loaded and performed in the browser client.

  4. Google PageSpeed Tools - Wikipedia

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    Google PageSpeed is a family of tools by Google, Inc. designed to help optimize website performance. It was introduced at a Developer Conference in 2010. There are four main components of PageSpeed family tools: PageSpeed Module (consisting of mod PageSpeed for the Apache HTTP Server and NGX PageSpeed for the Nginx), PageSpeed Insights, PageSpeed Service, and the PageSpeed Chrome DevTools ...

  5. Google Fiber - Wikipedia

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    19165 (Webpass) Google Fiber, sometimes stylized as GFiber, is a fiber broadband Internet service operated by Google Fiber Inc., [2] a subsidiary of Alphabet, [3] servicing a growing number of households in cities in 19 states across the United States. [4] In mid-2016, Google Fiber was estimated to have about 453,000 broadband customers.

  6. Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    Words per minute is a common metric for assessing reading speed and is often used in the context of remedial skills evaluation, as well as in the context of speed reading, where it is a controversial measure of reading performance. A word in this context is the same as in the context of speech. Research done in 2012 [9] measured the speed at ...

  7. Speed of light - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 300,000 kilometres per second; 186,000 miles per second; 671 million miles per hour).

  8. Measuring network throughput - Wikipedia

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    A typical method of performing a measurement is to transfer a 'large' file from one system to another system and measure the time required to complete the transfer or copy of the file. The throughput is then calculated by dividing the file size by the time to get the throughput in megabits, kilobits, or bits per second.

  9. Speed of sound - Wikipedia

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    The speed of sound is the distance travelled per unit of time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium. At 20 °C (68 °F), the speed of sound in air is about 343 m/s (1,125 ft/s; 1,235 km/h; 767 mph; 667 kn ), or 1 km in 2.91 s or one mile in 4.69 s. It depends strongly on temperature as well as the medium through which a ...