Something maybe a bit related.

I just had 25Gb/s internet installed (https://www.init7.net/en/internet/fiber7/), and at those speeds Chrome and Firefox (which is Chrome-based) pretty much die when using speedtest.net at around 10-12Gbps.

The symptoms are that the whole tab freezes, and the shown speed drops from those 10-12Gbps to <1Gbps and the page starts updating itself only every second or so.

IIRC Chrome-based browsers use some form of IPC with a separate networking process, which actually handles networking, I wonder if this might be the case that the local speed limit for socketpair/pipe under Linux was reached and that's why I'm seeing this.

This makes me wonder... does anyone offer an iperf-based speedtest service on the Internet?

Well there are some public iperf servers listed here: https://iperf.fr/iperf-servers.php

https://github.com/R0GGER/public-iperf3-servers is also a good list - a couple more US servers in various datacenters