Privacy
What happens to your data when you use needforping: tests run in your browser, results stay on your device, and only test data and ordinary web requests reach our servers.
What a test sends
A speed test downloads and uploads test data between your browser and our test server, and times small requests to it. That is the test itself: the data is random and is not kept. Like any website, the test server sees your IP address while it answers.
Your network details
When the page opens, it asks our server once for the name of your network, its IP version, your country and an approximate city: the country chooses the test server, and the other details are shown to you with the result. These details are shown on the page only. They are not stored by us, not added to your history and not included in exports.
M-Lab test
If our test server does not answer from your network, needforping offers a test through M-Lab, an open research platform; for visitors from Russia the test runs through M-Lab from the start. M-Lab measures between your browser and its own server and publishes every test, including your IP address, as open research data. The page says so before the test starts. M-Lab privacy policy: measurementlab.net/privacy
Results and history
Results are calculated in your browser. needforping keeps your recent results on this device only (browser storage), without your IP address, so you can compare runs. Clearing site data in your browser removes them. Exported reports are files created in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Microphone, camera and speakers
Device tests run in your browser. The microphone and camera are used only after you allow them, only while the test is open, and nothing you say or show is uploaded or recorded on our side. Recordings you make stay on your device until you close the page. You can withdraw the permission at any time in your browser settings.
Hosting, cookies and analytics
needforping is hosted on a global network that receives ordinary web requests (your IP address, the page address, your browser type) to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse. On its own domain, needforping counts page views, visits, referring pages and page loading speed with Cloudflare Web Analytics, without tracking cookies; visitors from the EU are not counted. needforping sets no tracking cookies and loads no advertising scripts at the moment. Your theme choice is kept in your browser's storage.
Contact
Questions about your data: laboratoru.support@gmail.com. E-mail is separate from the tests: what you write reaches us, the tests do not.