Ping Test

Ping Test sends four connection probes to a host and times how long each one takes to get a response, reporting the minimum, average and maximum round trip time along with any packet loss.

Reach for this to get a quick read on whether a host is reachable at all and how much latency sits between our server and it, similar to what a traditional ping does, or to spot a host that is dropping some but not all of its responses.

A public web server cannot send real ICMP ping packets without elevated privileges, so this times a TCP connection to a common port (443, falling back to 80) instead. A closed port still counts as a response, since the host answered, but a host that blocks connections entirely on both ports will show as unreachable even if it would answer a real ICMP ping.