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I work for the CDN Fastly and we have something very similar to Fast.com.

fastly-debug.com.

The goal of our site is to gather debug information but I use it as a reliable speed-test to a good portion of the internet's websites. I think this is a good tool like fast.com because unlike the 'official' speedtest sites, if you optimize ours or Fast's you're actually making the internet much faster for a lot of sites for users.

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You should move your JavaScript off your analytics domain for your debug site. It is getting clobbered by uBlock and Privacy Badger.

Thanks for the tip. In this case the JS is performing a very important function, helping us to measure distances to multiple pops, so it is better to stay in. I will forward your point about the domain, but I think there is a reason for that particular domain.

Or you could file bug reports with uBlock and Privacy Badger. There's nothing wrong with the Fastly site.

The whole point of them is to block analytics domains. If you don't value their users that's your problem.

is the JS client or the backend for any of the fastly-debug/perfmap stuff open source? I like the approach.

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