Speed / performance testing

• for Prometheus speedtest exporters see monitoring/prometheus/exporters/speedtest.md
• Comparism of speedtest-cli, speedtest-rs, ookla, blazetest-rs

Official speedtest.net cli app

• Website
  • No source code

blazetest-rs

• GitHub
• Rust
• AUR package: blazetest-rs

niu-speedtest

• GitHub
• Python
• Uses multiple servers

cfspeedtest

• code-inflation/cfspeedtest
• Unofficial CLI for speed.cloudflare.com
• Hard rate limit, only possible multiple times a day

speedtest-go

• GitHub
• Last release 2024-12i

librespeed/speedtest-cli

• librespeed/speedtest-cli
  • Last release 2025-06
• see ../../monitoring/prometheus/exporters/speedtest.md for speedtest exporter
• k8s-at-home/librespeed webservice chart
  • linuxserver/librespeed image
• Server list
• AUR packages:
  • librespeed-cli-bin

openwrt

On Laptop:

sudo pacman -S upx
cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest-cli/releases/download/v1.0.10/librespeed-cli_1.0.10_linux_mips_softfloat.tar.gz
tar -xzf librespeed-cli_1.0.10_linux_mips_softfloat.tar.gz
# Uncompress binary, see https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest-cli/issues/44
upx -d librespeed-cli
scp librespeed-cli root@_gateway:/tmp

On router:

/tmp/librespeed-cli --simple
Ping:   40 ms   Jitter: 3 ms
Download rate:  5.37 Mbps
Upload rate:    5.21 Mbps

Outdated

• librespeed/speedtest-go
  • Last release 2022
• speedtest-rs
  • Last release 2024-07
• sindresorhus/speed-test

sivel/speedtest-cli

Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net

see ../../monitoring/prometheus/exporters/speedtest.md for speedtest exporter

• GitHub
  • Archived since 2026-01
• Internetgeschwindigkeit mit dem Raspberry Pi messen
• won't work on mips/openwrt because of musl-libc ?

Share results:

speedtest-cli --share

Using rsync

time dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/rand.img bs=1M count=100
rsync --stats --partial --append  --progress -ah /tmp/rand.img server: