speedtest

HTML5 Speedtest

This speedtest uses the same algorithm as the Ookla / speedtest.net test. Because of that it gives about the same results.

It has a responsive interface, and can be used on desktop, tablets and phones.

Development / Build Setup

• as usual, you need nodejs and yarn.
• you need to have Rust (compiler + cargo) installed, version 1.40 or later.

Right now no Linux distributions come with a recent enough Rust. You need to install it manually. Instructions can be found on https://rustup.rs/, but for Linux and macos it boils down to:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Then clone the repo and build:

# clone repo
git clone https://github.com/miquels/speedtest.git
cd speedtest

# install dependencies
yarn

# install configuration file
cp public/config.json.example public/config.json
vim public/config.json

# serve with hot reload at localhost:8080
yarn serve

Run the backend server

# build backend server
cd server
source ~/.cargo/env # should not be needed, but try if the below fails.
cargo build --release
cd ..

# run server
server/target/release/speedtest-server

If you point yout browser at localhost:8080, you should see the webinterface.

If it doesn't work, use your browsers debugger/inspector, and look at the javascript console - that should give you a hint as to what is going on. For example, Chrome on OSX, press Option + Command + J.

Production use

# build and minify.
yarn build

# copy files to your webservers root. change /path/to/www/html to the
# actual path on your system (e.g. debian: /var/www/html).
cp -av dist/* /path/to/www/html/

Before you can use the app, you need to run the backend server as well.

Running the backend server.

If you have compiled the server as described above, its binary needs to be copied to a generic location, for example:

cp server/target/release/speedtest-server /usr/local/sbin/speedtest-server

The server needs to be run as a daemon. That's OS specific, and no sysv / systemd / whatever files have been included yet. The easiest solution is to run it in a screen session for now :)

screen
/usr/local/sbin/speedtest-server
# Press "Control-a d" to detach
# Use "screen -x" to re-attach

There are several command line options you can use, such as:

• --key, --chain: options for TLS (SSL) support
• --dir: serve the entire app, not just the speedtest backend
• --listen: address/port to listen on (default 4000)
• --help: get a list of all options.

For example, to serve TLS on port 443:

/usr/local/sbin/speedtest-server --key certificate.key \
        --chain certificate.pem --listen 443 --dir /var/www/html/speedtest
# Note: set `apiport` in `config.json` to 443, or just comment it out.

Note that the server does not write any access logs. If you do need access logs, you can get them (at least for the application itself, html/css/javascripts/assets) by serving the application using a generic webserver like Apache or Nginx, and running the api server on a separate port.