"Google Video Quality Report" to measure and rank the Internet connection environment of each user during YouTube playback

BySpencer E Holtaway

To connect to the Internet, you need to use the connection service provided by the ISP (Internet Service Provider). These connection services are expressing the speed with a numerical value such as "communication speed ○ ○ Mbps", but it takes time to read in actual use, "Is it really able to communicate at ○ ○ Mbps?" Often I also think. For those users' Internet connection environment, it is easy to understand from the aspect of "How much can YouTube movies can be played back smoothly?"Google Video Quality Report"is.

Google Video Quality Report
http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/#how_video_gets_to_you


YouTube launches new Video Quality Report in Canada
http://googlecanada.blogspot.ca/2014/01/youtube-launches-new-video-quality.html


Google can now say if your internet connection is quick enough for YouTube
http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/21/google-video-quality-report/


Looking at the movie below, you can see the overview of the Google Video Quality Report.

Google Video Quality Report - YouTube


The numerical value displayed by the ISP as the transfer rate is only the theoretical value, and it is not always possible for each user to be able to connect to the Internet at that speed when actually using the service. Also, when you play a movie on YouTube, you can navigate through various paths to carry data from YouTube's data server and deliver it to users, say "what device the user is using" or "whether it is wired or wireless "And" how many users are using the same service around? ", The speed gradually decreases due to various external factors. So, although you should be using a high-speed Internet connection service, the loading of your favorite sites will be delayed ... ... etc.

Based on these circumstances, Google said that "Google Video Quality Report" that anyone can easily understand what kind of quality of their Internet connection environment can be understood.

A really fast internet connection environment should be that applications and sites can be used smoothly and high-resolution movies can be reproduced easily. In the Google Video Quality Report, the user's Internet connection environment is of high quality (HD) capable of smoothly reproducing HD movies (720p), movies of at least 360p are of standard quality (SD) which is normally seen, 360p It's low quality (LD) which is stopped frequently when loading the movie even when the movie below is ranked and it teaches by ranking it.

In fact it is ranked my Internet connection environment like this.


These data are categorized according to data of YouTube movies played billions of hours every month, and the reaction of the users actually measuring their Internet connection environment isfrom hereYou can watch.

At the moment we can not measure it from Japan.