Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion
The technology consulting company Accenture will take over.
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https://openspeedtest.com/
In case anyone wants a new speed test.
Also https://librespeed.org/
Thank you!!
I host my own of this which is nice for testing local connections as well
it's built into Chrome. Just search speed test and it brings you to M-Lab.
Down votes for reality. Never change, Lemmy.
Do people just make up numbers for what companies are worth? I don't see how either of these are worth much of anything.
Yeah, this makes me immediately suspicious
A company is valued by what somebody is willing to pay for it.
So kind of, yes.
Speedtest probably gets billions of visitors a month, thats a lot of IPs and browser data you can harvest and sell.
It's all about traffic.
Toss in some ads and while you lose some customers you start generating revenue.
They bought all of Ookla from Ziff Davis, which includes rootmetrics and ekahau (various mobile network analytics/performance optimization stuff). Downdetector and Speedtest are just the two Ookla products that most people know so they get the headlines.
Prepare for enshittification while Accenture tries to find an RoI.
This is most likely true, a billion times over
It seems like they're mostly interested in Ookla's commercial mobile network services, Ekahau and RootMetrics.
Downdetector is hot garbage anyway.
Thank you! It’s divination in my opinion.
Speed test is whatever. I’m always suspicious that they have deals with certain ISPs to make the numbers look better than they are. It would be easy to do, and then just roll out the true cliche about “not every website or server will or can max out your connection.” Etc.
damn, both were kinda useful. doesn't seem $1B worth tho lol
just wait until it gets shitty.
Sounds about right.
They purchased all of Ookla from Ziff Davis, which includes Ekahau and RootMetrics. They're in this for the commercial side of it. Speedtest and Downdetector seem to be mostly PR sites from what I can tell. Like to get the Ookla name out there so people know who they are.
They purchased all of Ookla from Ziff Davis, which includes Ekahau and RootMetrics. They’re in this for the commercial side of it. Speedtest and Downdetector seem to be mostly "public relations" sites from what I can tell. Like to get the Ookla name out there and have a positive public image.
Ziff is in a selling mood it seems, he just sold off some game rights today .
Going back to GGG! I actually would call this good news!