IT consultant and services provider Accenture has agreed to buy Speedtest and Downdetector owner Ookla from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion in cash.
Accenture plans to integrate Ookla’s data products into its own offerings that are targeted at helping communications service providers, hyperscalers, government entities, and other types of customers “optimize … mission-critical Wi-Fi and 5G networks,” Accenture’s announcement today said.
Ookla’s platform also includes Ekahau, which offers tools for troubleshooting and designing wireless networks, and RootMetrics, which monitors mobile network performance.
Accenture plans to use data gathered from Ookla’s services for applications such as helping hyperscalers and cloud providers “ensure the resilience of AI infrastructure and edge datacenters, which deliver most of the inference workload,” improving fraud prevention in banks, conducting smart home analytics in utilities, and retail traffic optimization.
In a statement, Accenture chief strategy and services officer Manish Sharma said:
“Speedtest and RootMetrics define the experience; Downdetector identifies incidents faster; and Ekahau drives digital workplace transformation through superior Wi-Fi. In an era of omni-channel and agentic access, low-latency, zero-friction connectivity is a competitive necessity, and these tools give enterprises the power to build the high-performance environments they need.
Ookla says its products see a total of 250 million consumer-initiated tests per month, and it has about 430 employees. Ookla had a net income of $76.1 million and generated $230.7 million in revenue in 2025.
Ziff Davis bought Ookla in 2014 for $15 million, per a Reuters report today. The publishing company said it expects the sale to close “in the coming months.”
In a statement, Accenture CEO and chair Julie Sweet said:
By acquiring Ookla, we will help our clients across business and government scale AI safely and build the trusted data foundations they need to deliver the reliable, seamless connectivity that creates value.
Current Accenture public sector clients include the US Air Force, the US Social Security Administration, and, recently, the US Department of State.
Speedtest and Downdetector are popular among people seeking something to help quickly test their current internet speed and the status of online services, respectively. Downdetector is often cited by media reports discussing the availability of websites, apps, banks, and more.
Under Ziff Davis, both programs also have business-to-business (B2B) applications. Using Speedtest, for instance, Ookla gathers, aggregates, and analyzes data for “billions of mobile network samples daily, which measure radio signal levels, network coverage, and availability, and [quality of experience] metrics for a number of connected experiences, such as streaming video, video conferencing, gaming, web browsing, and CDN and cloud provider performance,” Ookla says. Currently, Speedtest claims telecommunications operators, regulatory and trade bodies, analysts, journalists, and nonprofits as B2B customers.
Downdetector Explorer, meanwhile, is a monitoring tool that’s supposed to help businesses detect outages. Customers include streaming services, banks, social networks, and communication service providers.
Should Accenture’s acquisition close, the IT consultant will similarly use data from Speedtest and Downdetector to inform clients, and individual users will be subject to a new privacy policy and any other changes Accenture potentially makes.
