Ping test
Ping any host or IP address from cities around the world and see the round-trip time, packet loss and jitter, with what each number means for calls, games and browsing.
- From many placesPing the host from cities around the world
- Round tripHow long a reply takes, and what that feels like
- Loss and jitterWhy calls break up and games lag
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See all toolsHow to run an online ping test
Type a host name such as example.com or an IP address such as 8.8.8.8, then press Start ping. Computers in up to 20 cities send small packets to the host, time each reply, and report back within a few seconds. You see every place on a world map, coloured by how quickly the replies came back.
- Choose where to ping from under Check from: worldwide, a continent, the Middle East or Pakistan.
- Pick 5, 10 or 20 places. Under More options you can send 4, 8 or 16 packets from each place, or name a city, a country or an internet provider.
- Read the answer at the top, then the row for each place.
Pinging from multiple locations at once shows something a ping from your own computer cannot: whether a host is slow for everyone or only far away from some of your users.
What the ping test measures
- Round trip: the time for a packet to reach the host and come back, in milliseconds. Distance sets the floor: light in fibre needs about 1 ms for every 100 km there and back, so a server on another continent can never answer as fast as one in your city.
- Packet loss: the share of packets that never came back. A few lost packets make video calls break up and games stutter, even when the round trip is short.
- Jitter: how much the round trip changes from one packet to the next. Steady replies under 10 ms apart keep calls smooth; uneven ones make audio choppy.
Each place shows its fastest, average and slowest reply, its packet loss and its jitter.
What a good ping looks like
Under 100 ms feels instant for browsing, calls and most games, so those places are marked fast. Between 100 and 250 ms is OK: pages still load fine, but calls and fast games may feel a little behind. Above 250 ms is slow, and you will notice the delay. The answer at the top says which places fall where, and which one is closest to the host.
Why a ping can fail when the site works
Many servers and firewalls ignore ping on purpose. If no place gets a reply, the host may still be up. To check a website itself, open the Uptime section, which opens the site the way a browser does, like the is it down checker. The full website checker report adds its speed, certificate and security headers.
Privacy and limits
The pings run on Globalping, a free network of test computers from jsDelivr, and their results are public. PieToolkit does not store the hosts you ping; see the privacy page. Every visitor gets 250 free tests an hour, and each place counts as one test. Addresses on a private network, such as 192.168.1.1 or localhost, cannot be reached from the internet and are refused.
Questions
Can I ping an IP address?
Yes. Both IPv4 addresses like 1.1.1.1 and IPv6 addresses work. A full link is fine too; the ping test keeps only the host name.
Is this a latency test for my own connection?
No. The pings start from the test computers, not from your device, so the numbers describe the path from those cities to the host. To see how your own connection behaves, run ping on your computer; the commands are under Run it yourself after each test.