Judging by the Looks and Sounds of Things

Judging by the Looks and Sounds of Things

A Third-Party Benchmark Study of Four Popular Web Conferencing Applications

03/30/2022 | 80 pages


This report provides results from a detailed benchmark study of four popular web conferencing applications:  Cisco Webex, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom that we conducted on behalf of Google.

For this study, we conducted more than 300 tests, resulting in approximately 2,400 individual sets of results to determine audio and video delivery performance with a range of usage scenarios, device platforms, and network conditions.  The usage scenarios included three different combinations of web conference participants, specifically 2 user, 5 user and 30 user scenarios; device platforms included ChromeOS, smartphone (Android OS), Windows PC, and MacBook; and network conditions included unlimited bandwidth, a 500-kbps connection, and a connection with high packet loss.