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Editorial Policy

Our guides exist to help people understand and improve their internet connection. This page explains how we write them, which sources we rely on, and how we keep them accurate.

Updated October 6, 2026

What we publish

We publish practical guides about internet speed, connection quality and troubleshooting. Each page is written for a specific question a reader is likely to have, such as how much speed 4K streaming needs or how to reduce jitter, and we don’t publish pages that don’t add something useful.

For background on the project, see about us.

How guides are written

  • We write in plain American English for a general audience, and explain technical terms when we use them.
  • We separate published requirements (for example, Netflix’s recommended speeds) from our own guidance (for example, how much headroom to leave), and say which is which.
  • We avoid absolute claims. Internet performance depends on many factors, and we say so.
  • We don’t publish statistics, rankings or averages unless we have real data and can describe how it was collected.

How we choose sources

For facts and figures, we prefer, in this order:

  1. Official documentation from the company or body concerned: a streaming service’s help center, a video call provider’s requirements, a regulator’s report.
  2. Technical standards and documentation, such as IETF RFCs and browser documentation.
  3. Documentation of measurement tools and open measurement projects.

Pages that rely on external figures list their sources at the bottom with the date we last checked each one. We don’t cite sources we haven’t read.

Review and updates

Each guide shows the date it was last updated. We review pages that quote third-party requirements regularly, because those figures change, and we update the page and its date when something changes. We also update guides when our test methodology changes.

Corrections

If you find an error, email contact@internetspeedtest.com with the page address and the issue. We check every report. If a correction materially changes a page’s guidance, we update the page and its date.

Independence and advertising

Internet providers and other companies can’t pay to change our guidance or to be mentioned. If we add advertising in future, ads will be clearly separate from editorial content and will never be placed over the test controls. We will update this policy and our privacy policy before that happens.

Use of automation

We may use software tools, including AI writing tools, to help draft or edit content. Every published page is checked against its sources before publication, and we remain responsible for what we publish.