There are many sites that will test your internet connection speed, but I have never felt the need to use such a site before. This because I know my connection speed and also because there are other ways to test it than using a site that will load a java applet, or something else on my computer just for this. This was true until I have stumbled across speedtest.net. This is an extremely good looking flash site that will present the world map and we can choose to test from various remote servers located in different places around the world. The tests are done very fast and with some nice looking animations. Also there is a history kept for the tests done and we can even share the results with others, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

While working on a project on mod_deflate, I have stumbled across this great link that allows you to test remotely any server if it has enabled compression (mod_gzip/mod_deflate) and also see some statistics on the bandwidth saved on the particular URL tested (this is achieved by making one request without gzip enabled and another one with gzip enabled).
I found it very handy while testing various things…

http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/

http://www.ducea.com is gzipped

Original Size: 43 K
Gzipped Size: 10 K
Data Savings: 76.74%