Ping Test
How fast does your connection answer? Measure ping, jitter and packet loss to data centres around the world.
At a glance
- Measures the round-trip time (ping) from your device to 31 Amazon Web Services data centres — Mumbai, Hyderabad, Singapore, Dubai, Frankfurt, London, Virginia, São Paulo, Sydney and more — and your nearest Cloudflare server.
- Shows the median and best ping, jitter (how much it varies) and packet loss for each place.
- Sorts the results so the fastest data centre comes first, and rates it for gaming and video calls.
- Each server gets a warm-up request first, so connection setup doesn’t inflate the result.
- Filter by region, choose 5 or 10 pings per server, and copy the results to share with support.
- Runs in your browser — no app. Browsers can’t send ICMP pings, so this times a tiny HTTPS request instead, which reads a few milliseconds higher.
Step by step
How to test your ping
- 1
Close downloads
Pause downloads, streams and updates on your network for a fair result.
- 2
Start the test
Press Start ping test. Each data centre is pinged several times.
- 3
Read the results
Look at the median ping for the places you play or call, plus jitter and loss.
Features
Everything you need, nothing you don’t
31 data centres
Across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Australia.
Jitter and packet loss
Not just the average — the steadiness that games and calls need.
Fastest first
Results sorted by ping, with a plain rating.
Nearest server baseline
Your ping to Cloudflare’s closest server — about as low as it gets.
Region filter
Test only the part of the world you care about.
Copy results
A neat text summary for forums, support tickets or your ISP.
What is a good ping?
| Ping | Rating | Feels like |
|---|---|---|
| Under 50 ms | Excellent | Instant — ideal for competitive games |
| 50–100 ms | Good | Fine for most games and video calls |
| 100–180 ms | Fair | Noticeable in fast shooters; calls still OK |
| Over 180 ms | High | Lag in games, talk-over in calls |
Ping, jitter and packet loss
- Ping (latency) is the time for a message to reach a server and come back. Distance matters: light in fibre covers roughly 200 km per millisecond, so Mumbai to Frankfurt can’t be much under 100 ms.
- Jitter is how much the ping changes from one moment to the next. Below 10 ms is good; high jitter makes calls choppy.
- Packet loss means some messages never arrive. Anything above 1–2% causes stutters and dropped audio.
How to lower your ping
- Use a wired (Ethernet) connection instead of Wi-Fi, or move closer to the router.
- Stop downloads, uploads and streaming on other devices while you play.
- Pick game servers in the nearest region — the table shows which is fastest for you.
- Restart your router, and ask your provider about congestion if evening pings are much higher.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What does a ping test measure?
Why is my ping higher here than in the command line?
Which servers are tested?
Is this the ping to my game?
Does the test use much data?
Is anything stored?
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