They bought all of Ookla from Ziff Davis, which includes rootmetrics and ekahau (various mobile network analytics/performance optimization stuff). Downdetector and Speedtest are just the two Ookla products that most people know so they get the headlines.
Do people just make up numbers for what companies are worth? I don’t see how either of these are worth much of anything.
Yeah, this makes me immediately suspicious
They bought all of Ookla from Ziff Davis, which includes rootmetrics and ekahau (various mobile network analytics/performance optimization stuff). Downdetector and Speedtest are just the two Ookla products that most people know so they get the headlines.
A company is valued by what somebody is willing to pay for it.
So kind of, yes.
Speedtest probably gets billions of visitors a month, thats a lot of IPs and browser data you can harvest and sell.
It’s all about traffic.
Toss in some ads and while you lose some customers you start generating revenue.