Google has begun to take the network performance of isps by the performance of isps and to measure the playback of video clips on YouTube. The test measures not only the throughput but also the video quality in the research.
The performance of dataintensieve sites such as YouTube are for an important part dependent on the network of an isp and the available capacity. Google states that the worldwide on various points mirrorservers has running for its YouTube platform, and that is often the shortest path is chosen to videos to the internet user. The last part is, however, the provider taken care of and here, Google has little to no influence on.
To the network performance of isps more transparent to Google so-called Video Quality Report release. These will, first of all, only in Canada, but the expectation is that Google is this fast also in other countries will offer. As a yardstick, Google, among others, the upload of a 720p video clip with a bitrate of at least 2.5 Mbit/s: providers that 90 percent of the time, this video data easily can forward it to the end-user gets the stamp ‘HD Verified’. Also videos with lower bitrates are considered, but these weigh less heavily in the assessment.
Google uses metadata of the billions watched YouTube clips to provide sufficient data for the reports to put together, spread over thousands of providers. Further promises the internetgigant all user data anonymous.
