12mo ago

LibreSpeed: Speedtest No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.

GitHub - librespeed/speedtest: Self-hosted Speed Test for HTML5 and more. Easy setup, examples, configurable, mobile friendly. Supports PHP, Node, Multiple servers, and more

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39429103

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12mo ago

LibreSpeed: Speedtest No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.

github.com /librespeed/speedtest

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A lovely tool to have on the home net to help confirm things are working as expected.
- That's what iperf3 is for.
  No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Webshit.
  
  Also a nice tool, but not nearly as convenient if you want to just pull a quick test from a phone for example.
Wait, why would you not use a websocket for this?
- My guess that websocket add additional overhead both in size (header) and complexity as browser and server need to encode/decode it making it more CPU intensive not to mention harder to implement.
  
  I've implemented it myself, down to the encoding and buffer management.
  It's a really simple back and forth first, but after that it's just dumping arbitrary binary data through the socket

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