# 🚀 Ad Speed

> 🚀 Ad Speed measures the initial response time from ad servers to help optimize ad performance. This extension specifically tracks the first network request

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/ad-speed](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ad-speed)

## Overview

- **ID:** `ad-speed`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** decalages.com
- **Category:** web-development
- **Daily users:** 2
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-06-26
- **First published:** 2025-06-23
- **Size:** 34 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ad-speed/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/decalages/adspeed](https://github.com/decalages/adspeed)

## Description

🚀 Features
<ul><li><strong>🚀 Enhanced automatic detection</strong>: Automatically detects multiple types of ads</li><li><strong>🚀 Precise measurement</strong>: Calculates time between page initialization and ad detection</li><li><strong>🚀 Visual notifications</strong>: Shows detected ad type with differentiated icons</li><li><strong>📊 Detailed history</strong>: Keeps a history of the last 100 measurements with ad type</li><li><strong>📈 Statistics</strong>: Calculates average ad loading times</li></ul>

## Rankings

- #69,965 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webNavigation`
- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ad-speed)