Before revision:  Today, as access speeds have increased by an order of magnitude---many users have multi-hundred megabits per second service and gigabit speeds are available to tens of millions of homes---conventional approaches to speed testing no longer accurately reflect the user experience. Worse, some tests are increasingly divorced from performance metrics that users care about---the performance of the applications that they use---and others are completely unable to accurately measure contemporary broadband speeds.
After revision:  Today, as access speeds have increased by an order of magnitude---many users have multi-hundred megabits per second service and gigabit speeds are available to tens of millions of homes---conventional approaches to speed testing no longer accurately reflect the changing user experience and network speeds.