Privacy Policy
This site has no accounts, no cookies, no analytics and no adverts, and your results stay in your own browser. During a test your browser talks directly to measurement servers run by other companies, and each of them sees your IP address; this page lists them, test by test.
The short version
- We do not collect your results. Speed, ping and DNS results, your history and your settings are saved only in your browser, and you can delete them below.
- Outside servers see your IP address. A test cannot work without talking to a server, so Cloudflare, M-Lab, Globalping and the others listed below see your address while a test runs.
- Two services publish data. M-Lab publishes your IP address with your result, so its test runs only after you tick a consent box each time. Globalping makes its measurements public, including the website or address you trace.
- No cookies, no tracking, no selling. We use no analytics or advertising scripts, set no cookies and do not sell or share data about you.
What runs in your browser
Every test on this site is a script that runs on your device. It measures by sending requests from your browser to test servers and timing the answers. Heavy tests, such as a speed test, start only when you press Start.
Some pages do one light lookup by themselves once the page has loaded. The internet, broadband, Wi-Fi and mobile speed tests, the Jio and Airtel pages, the ping and gaming ping tests, the DNS speed test, the traceroute and the IP address page ask Cloudflare for your IP address, network and approximate city so they can show them. The IP address page and the IPv6 test also ask Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 and ipify which IPv4 and IPv6 addresses they see. These answers stay in the browser tab (the Cloudflare one for up to 10 minutes) and are not sent to us.
What is stored on your device, and how to delete it
The site saves a few things in your browser’s own storage so that your choices and results are still there next time. Nothing in it is sent to us. Everything the site saves in local storage has a name that starts with np:.
| Name | What it holds | How long |
|---|---|---|
np:theme | Light or dark theme, if you chose one | Until you delete it |
np:history:… | Your last 50 results per test: speeds, ping, jitter, grade, test server, mode, data used, and the name and number of your internet provider’s network. Never your IP address. The Wi-Fi test adds the room names you type. | Until you delete them |
np:speed-mode, np:5g-cap, np:broadband-plan, np:dns:…, np:dnslookup:… | Settings you chose: test size, mobile data cap, your plan speeds, and the resolvers and rounds you picked | Until you delete them |
Session storage (np:…) | Short-lived copies of lookups, such as your IP address and network from Cloudflare, network names from RIPEstat and the Globalping probe list | Until you close the tab; most expire sooner |
IndexedDB database mpatel-speedtest | The stability test’s log: sample times and response times, events such as drops, speed test results you ran there, and its settings | Raw samples 7 days, hourly summaries and events up to a year, or until you delete it |
Delete what this site saved in this browser
The button deletes every np: item in local and session storage and the stability test’s database, for this site in this browser only. Your theme returns to the system setting. It cannot be undone, so download any history you want to keep first.
Checking what is saved…
You can also delete it yourself. Every browser lets you remove one site’s data in its privacy settings, usually under “Cookies and site data” or “Website data”; look for this site’s address there. Clearing all cookies and site data removes it too, and a private or incognito window forgets it when you close the window.
What our server receives
Our own server sends you the pages, styles, scripts and images of this site. Like any web server, it receives your IP address, the page you asked for, the time and your browser’s name with each request. The hosting provider keeps standard access logs of these requests for running and securing the server. We do not control how long the host keeps them, and we do not use them to track or profile visitors.
Test results are never sent to our server. Two small helpers on our server can take part in a test:
- Address lookup (
/api/meta.php). Used only when Cloudflare cannot tell your browser its address. It answers with your IP address and, when the site is behind Cloudflare, the approximate location Cloudflare adds to the request. It writes nothing down and sets no cookie. - Packet loss helper (
/api/turn.php). Used only if packet loss measurement is switched on for this site. It asks Cloudflare for a short-lived login (2 minutes) to Cloudflare’s relay server, which your browser then uses to send small test messages. To stop misuse it gives at most 3 logins in 10 minutes to one IPv4 address or one IPv6 /64 network (the block of addresses one home or phone gets), and at most 300 an hour and 2,000 a day to the whole site. For the per-address limit it keeps the times of your recent requests in a file named with a keyed hash of your address, made with a secret key kept on our server, so the name cannot be turned back into your IP address. A file not used for 10 minutes is deleted by a later use of the helper (the clean-up runs at most once every 5 minutes). The site-wide count keeps only request times, no addresses.
Which outside services see your IP address
A test works by talking to a server, and any server you talk to sees your IP address. Our scripts send each service only what its test needs. We cannot see or change what these services record, so the table links each one’s own policy.
| Service | When | What it receives | Policy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare speed test servers (speed.cloudflare.com) | Speed, bufferbloat, video call and ping tests; the address lookup on many pages | Your IP address and the test data your browser sends and receives | Cloudflare privacy policy |
| Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 | IP address, IPv6 and stability tests | Your IP address | 1.1.1.1 resolver privacy |
| Measurement Lab (M-Lab) | The M-Lab speed test, and the optional second test on speed pages, only after you tick the consent box | Your IP address and your result, which M-Lab publishes as open data | M-Lab privacy policy |
| Globalping (operated by Volentio JSD Limited) | Traceroute, DNS trace, the country check, ICMP ping, and the traces on the Jio and Airtel pages | Your IP address, the website or address you enter, and your network number when you choose “From my ISP”; results are public | Globalping privacy policy and terms of use |
| RIPE NCC RIPEstat | Names of the networks in a trace; ISP lookup when Cloudflare fails | Your IP address, the router addresses or network numbers looked up, and the name of our site | RIPE NCC privacy statement |
| ipinfo.io | Last fallback when the other address lookups fail | Your IP address | ipinfo privacy policy |
| ip-api.com | “Which DNS resolver am I using?”, only when you press that button | Your IP address and the address of the DNS resolver your device uses | ip-api.com website |
| Amazon Web Services | Ping, gaming ping and stability tests | Your IP address | AWS privacy notice |
| STUN servers of Cloudflare and Google | The WebRTC check on the IP address page, only when you press it | Your IP address | Cloudflare and Google privacy policies |
| ipify | IP address and IPv6 tests | Your IP address | ipify website |
DNS resolvers
The DNS speed test and the DNS lookup send DNS questions straight from your browser to the public resolvers you tick. Each one sees your IP address and the names asked for: for the speed test, popular names such as google.com and random names under mpatel.org; for the lookup, the domain you type.
- Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.2 privacy commitments
- Google Public DNS privacy
- Control D privacy policy
- DNS.SB privacy policy
- CleanBrowsing privacy policy
- AliDNS website
- DNS4EU privacy policy
Well-known sites used as ping targets
The ping test times Cloudflare, Google and the AWS regions you tick (Mumbai, Hyderabad and Singapore). The stability test sends small requests to 27 well-known services, such as Google, YouTube, WhatsApp, Microsoft and Amazon India. These sites see your IP address, as when you open them yourself. The requests ask for a tiny file, such as an icon, and are sent without cookies.
If you type an address into “Your own address” on the ping test, your browser sends requests to exactly that address, without cookies. That site sees your IP address. The address you type is not saved or sent to our server.
Tests that publish data
M-Lab. M-Lab adds every test result, including your IP address, to a public data set for internet research. The Google Search Help page on the speed test says the same about the test in Google Search. That is why the M-Lab test on this site runs only after you tick the consent box, and the box starts unticked on every visit.
Globalping. Globalping’s terms say “Measurement Data is public”. Anyone with a measurement’s ID can see it, including the website or address you traced. Do not trace private names or addresses. A reverse trace to your own IP address puts your address into that public result.
Camera and microphone
Only the video call test uses your camera and microphone, and only after you press its button and your browser asks for permission. The preview and the sound level meter run inside your browser. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere, and both turn off when you press Stop or leave the page. You can take the permission back at any time in your browser’s site settings.
What we never collect
- No cookies. This site does not set any.
- No analytics, advertising or social media scripts. Every script on the site is served from our own server.
- No accounts, names, email addresses or phone numbers. No form on the site sends anything to us.
- No GPS location. Location on our pages is an estimate from your IP address.
- No selling, renting or sharing of data about you, because we do not hold any.
If this ever changes, for example if the site adds privacy-friendly visitor counting, this page will say so first and its date will change.
Children
The tests are general tools and do not ask anyone for personal details, so we hold nothing about children or adults. The outside services above still see the IP address of any device that runs a test. A parent who wants to remove what a test saved can use the delete button above.
Changes to this policy
This policy describes the site as it works on . When a test starts using a new service or stores something new, we update this page and its date together with that change. This page explains our practice in plain language; it is not legal advice.
Questions about privacy
This site is run by MPATEL. The full method behind each test, and the servers it uses, is on the About page.