Ping Test
How responsive is your connection?
Ready to test. Check how quickly and consistently your connection responds.
Provider
Test server
- About 15 seconds
- Almost no data
- Pause streaming first
What the numbers mean
- Ping
- How long your connection takes to respond, in milliseconds (ms). It’s why a game feels snappy or laggy. Lower is better. Good: Under 30 ms is great for gaming. Under 100 ms is fine for calls and browsing.
- Jitter
- How much your ping bounces around. Even with a good ping, lots of jitter makes calls choppy and games feel uneven. Lower is better. Good: Under 10 ms is very steady. Under 30 ms is fine for video calls.
- Spikes
- Moments when the connection suddenly got slow, at least twice as slow as usual. A few are normal. Lots of them feel like stutter or lag.
- Failed requests
- Checks that never got an answer. One here and there isn’t a big deal. Several in a row means your connection dropped for a moment.
- ms
- Milliseconds, thousandths of a second. 100 ms is a tenth of a second, about how long a blink takes.
How this test works
We send 30 tiny requests to a server near you, about half a second apart, and time how long each one takes to come back. Your ping is the middle reading, so one slow request can’t throw it off. Jitter is how much the time changes from one request to the next. Lower is better for both.
Slow spikes are listed on their own so you can see what pushed jitter up. Failed requests are shown too, but they’re not the same thing as packet loss. Your ping to a particular game server may be different, since this measures the trip to our nearest test server.