Ping Test API: Ping network tests from multiple locations

A JSON API to run ping network tests from multiple worldwide locations. Use this API to test the latency and reachability of your website from multiple geo locations, simplify the troubleshoot of potential network connectivity and speed issues from specific locations.

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Consumes 5 credits per API call

# Example Curl request from the command line:
                          
curl -X POST "https://api.apivoid.com/v2/ping-test" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
     -d '{"host":"google.com"}'

# Example JSON output for a 200 HTTP status code:

{
    "host": "google.com",
    "locations": [
        {
            "continent_code": "NA",
            "continent_name": "North America",
            "country_code": "US",
            "country_name": "United States",
            "city_name": "San Francisco",
            "ping_output": {
                "host": "google.com",
                "ip_address": "142.251.46.238",
                "ip_hostname": "sfo03s27-in-f14.1e100.net",
                "is_valid_ip": true,
                "is_private_ip": false,
                "is_loopback_ip": false,
                "is_reserved_ip": false,
                "packets_sent": 3,
                "packets_received": 3,
                "percent_packet_loss": 0,
                "icmp_requests": [
                    {
                        "bytes": 64,
                        "icmp_seq": 1,
                        "ttl": 117,
                        "time_ms": 0.977
                    },
                    {
                        "bytes": 64,
                        "icmp_seq": 2,
                        "ttl": 117,
                        "time_ms": 0.689
                    },
                    {
                        "bytes": 64,
                        "icmp_seq": 3,
                        "ttl": 117,
                        "time_ms": 0.454
                    }
                ],
                "rtt": {
                    "min": 0.454,
                    "avg": 0.706,
                    "max": 0.977,
                    "mdev": 0.213
                },
                "elapsed_ms": 2018
            },
            "error": ""
        },
        {
            "continent_code": "AS",
            "continent_name": "Asia",
            "country_code": "IN",
            "country_name": "India",
            "city_name": "Bangalore",
            "ping_output": {
                "host": "google.com",
                "ip_address": "142.250.70.110",
                "ip_hostname": "pnbomb-ac-in-f14.1e100.net",
                "is_valid_ip": true,
                "is_private_ip": false,
                "is_loopback_ip": false,
                "is_reserved_ip": false,
                "packets_sent": 3,
                "packets_received": 3,
                "percent_packet_loss": 0,
                "icmp_requests": [
                    {
                        "bytes": 64,
                        "icmp_seq": 1,
                        "ttl": 118,
                        "time_ms": 18
                    },
                    {
                        "bytes": 64,
                        "icmp_seq": 2,
                        "ttl": 118,
                        "time_ms": 17.5
                    },
                    {
                        "bytes": 64,
                        "icmp_seq": 3,
                        "ttl": 118,
                        "time_ms": 17.3
                    }
                ],
                "rtt": {
                    "min": 17.262,
                    "avg": 17.594,
                    "max": 17.999,
                    "mdev": 0.305
                },
                "elapsed_ms": 2022
            },
            "error": ""
        },
        ...
    ],
    "elapsed_ms": 3279
}

Test your CDN or load balancer latency from multiple locations

Businesses and startups use this Ping Test API to run ping network tests from multiple locations and check their website, IP addresses, API endpoints, load balancers and CDN latency and speed.

Worldwide Locations

New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Singapore, Sydney, Bangalore, Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam.

Fast Responses

You can test any website from multiple locations and get the ping stats within 2-3 seconds.

Detailed Report

The JSON data includes the packets sent, received and lost, and the round trip time (RTT) stats min/avg/max.

Throubleshoot with Ease

Easily troubleshoot network latency and connectivity issues with our API from your platform.

Take a look at some real-world use cases of this API service

Our API can be used in many ways, from server administration tasks to network diagnostic tasks. Here we showcase the most popular use cases according to our customers usage:

Perform Ping Tests

Test the network latency and RTT of your website from multiple global locations with ease.

A Tool for Your Users

Provide a multi-location ping test tool to your customers integrated directly within your platform.

Test CDN, Load Balancer, etc

You can use this ping JSON API to test the latency (ms) of your website, CDN, load balancer, IP address.

Troubleshoot Network Issues

Check the latency of your website, find out why it is slow from X location, fix the issue and re-test it.

$host = 'google.com'; $apiUrl = 'https://api.apivoid.com/v2/ping-test'; $apiKey = 'your_api_key_here'; $ch = curl_init($apiUrl); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json', 'X-API-Key: ' . $apiKey]); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode(['host' => $host])); $response = curl_exec($ch); $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); curl_close($ch); if ($httpCode === 200) { $responseData = json_decode($response, true); print_r($responseData); }