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Today is Monday, 06 Oct, 2008 |
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The purpose of this page is to provide a base for benchmarking
FortitudeSeven.com's
Internet transfer and computational speed. We hope that some day all
other web hosting companies will follow, and provide some sort of system by which
prospective customers can ascertain the quality of the web host's service.
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Transfer Speed Test
This is the most important test, as this reflects the speed at which your
visitors will be able to view the pages on your site, or the rate at which they
are able to download larger files, such as photos, zip files, mp3 etc.
Unfortunately, this test is also the most difficult to do accurately. This is
because the speed that a file downloads depends on a number of factors, our own
server's Internet connection is one of them. The most important other factor is,
of course, the speed of your own internet connection (your max ISP
bandwidth). Consequently, if you are on dial-up, this test will have little value,
since the speed of your modem will be the real limitation in the download speed.
Broadband users on the other hand should get a reasonably good indication of our
potential throughput.
The following table shows you the downloading speeds at different Internet
connections in theory and reality.
| 33.6 kbps - Dial-up |
4.2 KB/Sec |
3.78 ~ 3.36 KB/Sec |
| 56 kbps - Dial-up |
7.0 KB/Sec |
6.3 ~ 5.6 KB/Sec |
| 128 kbps - ISDN |
16.0 KB/Sec |
14.4 ~ 12.8 KB/Sec |
| 384 kbps - DSL |
48.0 KB/Sec |
43.2 ~ 38.4 KB/Sec |
| 512 kbps - DSL |
64.0 KB/Sec |
57.6 ~ 51.2 KB/Sec |
| 768 kbps - DSL |
96.0 KB/Sec |
86.4 ~ 76.8 KB/Sec |
| 1000 kbps - DSL |
125.0 KB/Sec |
112.5 ~ 100.0 KB/Sec |
| 1500 kbps - DSL/T1/Cable |
187.5 KB/Sec |
168.75 ~ 150.0 KB/Sec |
*measured in kilo-bits per second
**download speed (measured in kilo-bytes per second) = your
Internet connection speed ÷ 8
(1 byte = 8 bits),
for an example: 512 kbps ÷ 8 bits = 64 KB/Sce
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In reality, the downloading speed can only be reached around 90% ~ 80% of the
speed in theory maximum, due to the line quality of your ISP, traffic of the
Internet and other technical reasons.
Having understand all the relationship between Internet connection and downloaing
speed, we can now begin our transfer speed test. To do the test, we have developed
a script to simulate the transfer and calculate the downloading speed directly
from our server to you PC. After the test, the result sould be similar to the
figure in the table above. To start the test, click the "Start Transfer Test"
button below:
Optionally, you can download this test file (~2MB) from our server to see
the really downloading speed! The Download Complete dialog box will show
the download time and transfer rate (these instructions are for Internet Explorer,
other browsers have slightly different menus.):
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Computational Speed Test
This test is really only important if your site performs any intensive
computational tasks, such as database queries or site searching features.
The test involves executing a very simple CGI script that performs 2.5 million
simple find and replace operations. The
source
code of the file is available to you. If you want compare our server's
computational speed with anothers, you would have to get them to put the script on
their server. Since computational speed can vary considerably from server to
server (it depends on both the load on the server and its specifications), we
strongly suggest you do this before choosing a web hosting service.
To run the test, just click the "Computational Test" button below (it shouldn't
take more than 10 seconds to complete):
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