Tip 2: This utility was created before Cloudflare entered the free public DNS market. Tip 1: You may want to adjust the number of queries to speed up the benchmark results. The utility will start up automatically.Īdjust the Query Data Source to a good sample set for your usage and click Start Benchmark and after a few minutes a the report will generate and open in your browser. Then, run the downloaded EXE and hit the Extract button. To get started, head over to and download the latest version for your platform. Once you run the utility, a report will be generated with a personalized DNS provider recommendation. Now there is an even better solution using a free utility called NameBench developed by Google to automatically test the performance of all of the popular DNS providers for your location. I also covered how to manually test the performance of a DNS provider to make sure you select the best one that gives you the best performance.
In the past, I have written about how you can speed up your browser simply by changing your DNS servers to OpenDNS, an alternative to the DNS servers provided by your internet service provider. The result is a lot of domain resolutions, which makes the performance of your DNS provider critical to your web browsing speed. Many of these requests for resources go to different domains which also must be resolved before the browser can download the file.
Once the page is downloaded, it is processed by the browser, which then can trigger hundreds of downloads as the various resources on the page are fetched. When you type in a domain, such as, your browser must resolve the address into an IP address so your computer can talk to the site's server and download the web page. DNS (Domain Name Service) plays a critical role in the operation of all web browsers.
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