Speedtest and Downdetector are poised to join Accenture.
The consulting firm intends to acquire their parent company, Ookla.
Ookla has belonged since 2014 to the Ziff Davis group, which has designated it as its Connectivity division. It reported $231 million in revenue in 2025. Accenture is prepared to take it on for about five times that amount (roughly $1.2 billion) in cash.
Established in 2006, Ookla originally offered only Speedtest, a community-driven metric of network quality. In 2018, it expanded by acquiring Downdetector, a service that monitors disruptions to websites. That same year it also acquired Ekahau, which specializes in optimizing Wi‑Fi networks. RootMetrics, which tests networks under real-world conditions, was added in 2021 through another acquisition.
From this suite of products, Ookla has built a broad array of B2B offerings: personalized maps of network coverage, marketing services for operators, and the integration of diagnostic tools into IT systems, among others.
Last year, Ookla formalized a collaboration with a competitor of Accenture: Deloitte. Its core elements include assistance with planning for telecom infrastructure providers, performance measurement for operators, and deployment monitoring for governments.
