The Top 5 gameserver ping tools might be fake

I was doing some keyword searching for Ping Everything Everywhere All At Once recently and found a few keywords that might be interesting to compete for SEO wise.

Once such keyword is “lol ping test” and when I went in and took a look at some of the top few results, I was impressed. Not only at some of the implementations, but also that people building such tools for more serious gamers.

After all, my roots in tech all started from multiplayer gaming in the 90s.

But after investigating further on the “servers” that they were pinging, it turns out they are not only nothing related to the gameservers that they were trying to ping, but instead were just pinging a URL across the various AWS regions like:

For example sake, I also took a look at the other games that these tool was supposed to be pinging, and behold:

They were pinging the same https://dynamodb.<aws_region>.

This use of the same url can also be found across some of the other sites in the search results.

While its possible that game providers are hosting their servers within the AWS network, it is disingenuous to provide a tool that just pings a webpage hosted on AWS and call the result indicative of actually pinging the gameserver.

Perhaps there’s an opportunity here for PEEAAO.