YouTube Dashboard Compares Your Experience to Others'

Ever wonder how your Internet service provider, home network, processor speed, and other factors affect the speed and quality with which you can watch videos on YouTube? Google announced a personalized speed dashboard on Thursday for YouTube that tells anyone, in under a second, how fast their connection is to YouTube's servers, and how fast it has been historically, over time. The dashboard also graphs a comparison between one's speed and that of users in other regions, or users in the same region who use competing Internet service providers.