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24 alternatives to An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping

Howdy HN! I find myself testing my ping from time to time, especially when my internet seems wonky while WFH. It feels like there should be an easier way test my ping than puling up a terminal or a complex web app - especially when I'm on my phone or any other device that doesn't have a terminal. I figured I should be the change I wish to see in the world and created this super light ping test. I also created a latency monitoring solution (https://github.com/cjjeakle/network-monitor), feel free to clone and try it out! I know there are a lot more mature monitoring…

This is a lightweight web-based ping testing tool designed for quick network diagnostics without requiring a terminal. It works on any device with a browser, including phones, making it more accessible than… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Ping▲78

    Measure latency in real-time, directly in your web browser.

    2020 · ping.calvin.al · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN - I’m the developer of PingStalker, a macOS utility I built to see what’s really happening on the LAN/WLAN. I live in the CLI, but when it came to discovery and monitoring, I found it limiting. So I built a GUI that brings my favorite tools together in one place. PingStalker started because I wanted to know if something on the network was scanning my machine. I also wanted quick access to core details—external IP, Wi-Fi data, and local topology. Then I wanted more: fast, reliable scans using ARP tables and ICMP. As a Wi-Fi engineer, I couldn’t stop there. I kept adding ways to…

    Nov 2025 · pingstalker.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3FT

    A server that replies to your pings faster than ever! Now with IPv6 support. Give it a minute and the response time will go down tremendously: ping ftlping.net On Windows, add an option not to stop after 4 pings: ping -t ftlping.net Works best on MacOS and FreeBSD. Not impressive on Windows but you can see something interesting if you run a packet analyser. Report issues here: https://github.com/plingbang/ftlping/issues The code may be published when my future self passes it to me.

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Web Ping▲104

    Mac App to monitor your websites

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Test your download speed using SpeedTest on the command-line

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PingPing▲168

    A simple tool to monitor your website and SSL

    2018 · pingping.io · its alternatives →

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    Ping▲151

    Monitor Linux servers on your phone

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    gniP▲257

    Reverse Ping - Pingdom/Cronitor alternative, quick & easy

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Apex Ping▲303

    Uptime & performance monitoring for websites and APIs

    2016 · its alternatives →

  10. 10SA

    I've frequently found myself using [nvitop](https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop) to diagnose GPU/CPU contention issues. The two best things about it are: - It's easy to install if I can access pip in the container - It makes a compelling screenshot (which helps me communicate with coworkers.) With those two lessons in mind: Here is Sping! Purpose: Help observe and diagnose latency issues at layer 4+ (TCP/HTTP/HTTPS) Two good things about it: - It's easy to install if you have pip. (Available at…

    2025 · dseltzer.gitlab.io · its alternatives →

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    Get notified when things go wrong

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Check your internet speed and latency

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Lightweight server monitoring app for Android

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Ping Man▲178

    Monitor your ping in your Mac menu bar

    2018 · pingman.io · its alternatives →

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    Game server status monitoring and analytics tool

    2022 · its alternatives →

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  17. 17PL

    Hey folks! Shahar and Tal from Keep (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keephq.dev) here! For the last few weeks we’ve been building Peeng and can now share our beta with you: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.peeng.sh. Peeng is the easiest and quickest “heartbeat” architecture we could think of. Just pick a subdomain (e.g. x.peeng.sh), configure an interval, an endpoint, and a payload, and hit that subdomain every <X (interval) seconds — If you won’t, Peeng will send an HTTP POST request to your configured endpoint. It’s Pingdom&#x2F;Cronitor&#x2F;heartbeat.sh free alternative (but the other way around and A LOT…

    2023 · peeng.sh · its alternatives →

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    Test your internet speed with our free online speed test. Check your download speed, upload speed, ping, and jitter instantly.

    2023 · internetspeed.my · its alternatives →

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    Free Online Ping Tool for Network Diagnostics

    Jul 2026 · cbrtool.com · its alternatives →

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    Test your internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net from the CLI - sindresorhus/speed-test

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Just F-ing Ping - Because sometimes you just want to f-ing ping! - just_f-ing_ping.md

    2024 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    The only app to plot pings on a map. Map the network latency of an area, trail, or route. Find the fastest cell signal. Diagnose connectivity on the road.

    2017 · pingpoint.io · its alternatives →

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    DTEKT▲70

    Website uptime and performance monitoring

    2021 · its alternatives →

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