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This development tool simulates slow network connections to test how websites and applications perform under poor connectivity conditions. It is designed for developers and QA professionals who need to identify… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Tool for testing sites and apps on slow connections launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A Few Facts About Us… Our company tries to ensure that all Mac users are able to get the best experience, and that is why we recommend our customers to use the apps and software that we recommend. We ourselves are Mac users that is why everything that we do and recommend is through experience.

    2011 · slowyapp.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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    Simulate custom Internet connection speeds for testing

    2014 · slowyapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Check your internet speed and latency

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Simulate slow connection so you can optimize sites for speed

    2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Google & ChatGPT ignore slow pages, check if yours is fast!

    2025 · seospeedtest.com · its alternatives →

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    2017 · latency.apex.sh · its alternatives →

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    Test your website load speed from 6 locations at once

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    CLI Native WebRTC Agent in Rust. Contribute to bitwhip/bitwhip development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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…

    2022 · ping.projects.chrisjeakle.com · its alternatives →

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    Test page speed and get recommendations to improve load time

    2023 · debugbear.com · its alternatives →

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    Take a speedtest from your Mac's Menu Bar

    2017 · speedtest.net · its alternatives →

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    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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    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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    The world’s most trusted internet speedtest

    2016 · beta.speedtest.net · its alternatives →

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    Senior full stack software engineer with 8+ years shipping production systems in React, Node.js, Python, and Rails. Previously a Product Engineer at Ghost. Based in South Korea.

    2021 · ronaldlangeveld.com · its alternatives →

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    Analyze your website & make it faster.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Benchmarking app performance on the modern web

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Professional network quality testing tool

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN. We’re Jay and Vadim from Highlight.io (https://highlight.io). We’re building an open source [1] monitoring platform for web applications. Today we’re excited to be sharing a performance tool we’ve been working on, which helps you inspect the latency of code execution from the client to the server. As engineers at past startups, we often had to debug slow queries, poor load times, inconsistent errors, etc... While tools like Jaegar [2] helped us inspect server-side performance, we had no way to tie user events to the traces we were inspecting. In other words, although we had…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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