Last updated 29 August 2026
The test runs inside your browser. No account, no cookies, no advertising, no analytics script, and nothing that identifies you. Two things are stored: an anonymous copy of the measurements, so the site can tell people how their connection compares — and, only if you press the share button, a full copy of your result so the link works.
The measurements are calculated in your browser tab. To measure anything at all, your browser has to send and receive real data from real servers — that is what a network test is. Those servers necessarily see your IP address, exactly as they would if you visited any website.
During a test your browser talks to:
node1.pingargus.com, which relays the packet-loss test and answers the
DNS-leak lookups.Each of those parties handles your IP address under their own privacy policy, as a normal consequence of your computer contacting them.
1. An anonymous measurement, on every test. When a test finishes, the numbers join a pool so the site can show how connections actually perform — by provider, by country, by time of day, on fixed lines and on mobile. That pool is the point of the project: nobody publishes honest figures for bufferbloat, packet loss or DNS quality, and they are exactly the things that decide whether a connection is any good.
What is sent: your speeds, latency, latency under load, jitter, packet loss, NAT behaviour, whether you have IPv6, which DNS resolver answered and how quickly, round-trip times to each continent, your country, your network operator, whether you were on a phone or a computer, and whether you were on a mobile network or a fixed line.
What is deliberately not sent: your IP address, your city, your device name, any account, any cookie, any identifier of any kind, and any way to connect one test to another or to you. The time is rounded to the hour on our side rather than sent from your browser. There is no key that could be used to look up "this person's results", because no such key exists and none is created.
Under the GDPR's own definition, data that cannot identify a person — directly or indirectly, by any means reasonably likely to be used — is not personal data, and the regulation does not apply to it. That is the standard this is built to, not merely the intention behind it.
You can decline in one click. Underneath every result there is a line saying your numbers were added, and a button that stops it. The choice is remembered and applies to every test after it.
2. A full result, only if you ask for a link. If you press "Get a link to this result", and only then, a copy of the measurements is saved so the link works. That copy contains your speeds, latency, jitter, NAT type, DNS timings and the city and network name your connection reports. It does not contain your IP address. Saved results are deleted automatically after 90 days.
Anyone with the link can view it, so treat it as public. If you would rather a result did not exist, email us and we will delete it.
Nothing else. No account, no advertising, no analytics script, no server-side log of your visit, and no profile of you across visits.
This site sets no cookies and runs no tracker. There is nothing to consent to, which is why you were not interrupted by a banner.
Exactly one thing can ever be written to your device: a note that you asked not to contribute to the
statistics. It exists only because you pressed the button, it contains the single character 1, and
it is deleted the moment you change your mind. A preference you set yourself is the one category of local storage
that requires no permission anywhere in the world — and if you never press the button, nothing is stored at
all.
The packet-loss test sends 300 small datagrams through a relay we run, because measuring lost packets honestly requires UDP with retransmission switched off and a browser cannot do that alone. The relay sees your IP address for the few seconds it runs, in memory. It is not written down.
The DNS-leak test asks for names only our own nameserver can answer, then records which resolvers came asking — because those, not your settings, are your real resolvers. Those records are held in memory for three minutes and then discarded. They never touch disk. Keeping them permanently would be gathering precisely the data this feature exists to warn you about.
A note on the logos. Your provider's logo and country flag are fetched through our own server rather than loaded into your browser from a third party. That is deliberate: no outside company is told which internet provider our visitors use.
Where the GDPR, UK GDPR, the UAE Personal Data Protection Law, the CCPA or a comparable law applies to you, you have rights of access, correction, deletion, objection and portability over personal data held about you.
In practice there is an unusual answer here: we hold no personal data about you to access, correct or delete. The statistics cannot be traced to a person, so there is nothing in them to find. The one exception is a result you chose to share — email the link and it will be deleted.
We do not sell data, we do not share it with advertisers, there are no advertisers, and no automated decision is made about you.
The website and its measurement endpoints run on Cloudflare's network, worldwide. The statistics and shared results are stored on a single server in the United States. If you are in the EEA or the UK, that is a transfer outside your region — but since the statistics contain no personal data, and shared results contain only what you deliberately chose to publish, there is nothing in the transfer that identifies you.
Ping Argus is operated from the United Arab Emirates.
This is a network diagnostic tool with no accounts and no personal data collection. It is not directed at children.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change ever means we start collecting something we don't collect today, it will be stated plainly here rather than buried.
Questions, or want a shared result removed: riverfrome@gmail.com