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I can't remember where I read this but some ISP's give preferential treatment to url's with the word " /speedtest " in it rendering the test meaningless

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that's impossible because fast is served via https

Correct me if I am wrong, but you can still see the URL you navigate to when using https, is that not correct?

Once the connection is established you can't see the traffic between you and the URL.

Is my understanding correct?

Through SNI you get to see the domain name [0] (until encrypted SNI is working[1]), but not the rest of the url.

[0] - https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/86723/why-do-ht...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17538390

Due to SNI, the domain name is sent in cleartext but nothing else. So yes they could key off of "fast.com" but other sites where "/speedtest" is included would be encrypted.

"https://fast.com" doesn't contain "/speedtest"?

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