Check all the functionality of your controller or gamepad online

An online gamepad tester is the fastest way to answer one question: is my controller healthy? This free gamepad tester website reads your pad directly in the browser and visualizes every input in real time. Buttons light up as you press them, sticks trace their exact position, triggers show live pressure, and rumble motors fire on command. There is nothing to install, no account to create, and no waiting. If you just unboxed a controller, bought one used, or suspect yours is failing, this page gives you proof in under a minute.

How this HTML5 gamepad tester works

This site is an HTML5 gamepad tester, which means it uses the standard browser Gamepad API built into Chrome, Edge, and other modern browsers. When you press a button, the browser wakes the controller and exposes its state: 17 standard buttons plus extras, four stick axes, analog trigger values, and rumble actuators. Our game controller tester polls that state every animation frame and turns raw numbers into verdicts you can act on. Think of it as a hardware tester and gamepad tester combined with a debugger: the visualizer shows what your games see, the raw data grid shows exact values for fault finding, and the input history logs every press and release so double clicks, stuck buttons, and dead inputs cannot hide.

How to test your controller in 30 seconds

Using this controller tester online takes three moves. First, connect your pad with a USB cable, which is the most reliable option for any USB controller tester session, or pair it over Bluetooth. Second, press any button. Browsers hide gamepads until the first input, so that single press is what makes your controller appear on screen. Third, work through the checks: press every button once, pull both triggers slowly from rest to full pull, rotate each stick in a full slow circle, leave the sticks centered to catch drift, and fire the rumble motors. An online controller tester that runs entirely in the page means each result appears the instant you perform the input.

Supported controllers: PS5, PS4, PS3, Xbox, Switch and PC

As a PS5 controller tester, this page fully supports the DualSense and DualSense Edge, including touchpad clicks, Create and Options buttons, and trigger travel measurement. It works equally well as a PS4 controller tester for the DualShock 4 and as a PS3 controller tester for older Sixaxis and DualShock 3 pads connected over USB. On the Microsoft side, this Xbox controller tester covers Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox Elite, and Xbox 360 controllers, with correct asymmetric stick layout and impulse trigger pressure display. That makes it a dependable Xbox controller tester online for both current and legacy pads. Nintendo players get a proper Switch Pro layout with minus, plus, Home and Capture buttons, and paired Joy-Cons appear as a testable pad in most desktop browsers. Because it reads the standard mapping, it also serves as a PC controller tester and PlayStation controller tester for generic XInput and DirectInput pads, fight sticks, and third party controllers. If your system sees the pad, this gamepad tester site can test it.

Gamepad tester stick drift check

Stick drift is the most common reason people open a gamepad tester stick drift check: the character walks or the camera creeps with thumbs off the sticks. Our tester samples each stick at rest and reports the offset to three decimals. Under ±0.05 is healthy, ±0.05 to 0.12 is minor offset you can mask with a small deadzone, and anything above ±0.12 is hardware drift that cleaning or a module replacement must fix. Pair the reading with the deadzone finder, which recommends the exact deadzone value to copy into your game, and thestick precision test, which maps full stick travel to expose worn modules that rest readings alone can miss.

Gamepad tester vibration and trigger checks

The built-in gamepad tester vibration check fires heavy and light rumble motors independently, plus burst and pulse patterns that expose sticking motors. Hold the pad while testing: a healthy motor hums cleanly, while grinding or silence on one side means failure. As a controller tester with vibration testing over a wired connection, it avoids the classic trap where Bluetooth drivers disable rumble and healthy motors look dead. For triggers, open the dedicatedtrigger travel test to verify smooth 0 to 100 analog travel, max reach at full pull, and left to right symmetry. And when input speed is the question, the reaction time test measures your pad with best of 5 scoring, which is the fairest way to compare wired against Bluetooth.

Why test wired over USB first

Every hardware gamepad tester gives the cleanest results over a wired USB connection. Bluetooth adds polling delay and jitter, can hide analog trigger pressure, and on Windows often disables Xbox rumble entirely. That is why each test on this gamepad tester website recommends USB with Chrome or Edge on desktop: it removes the connection as a variable, so any fault you see is genuinely the controller. Once a pad passes wired, repeating the same motions on Bluetooth tells you exactly what wireless costs on your setup. For buyers, sellers, and repair shops, the health score export turns those findings into shareable JSON proof.

Is this controller tester safe and private

Yes. A proper HTML gamepad tester never needs your data to leave the device, and this one does not. All polling, drift math, circularity analysis, and exports run locally in your browser tab. Pressing Start testing creates no account, sets no tracking beyond standard privacy friendly operation, and downloads nothing unless you explicitly export a JSON report. Whether you need an Xbox gamepad tester, a gamepad tester for PS5 controllers, or a general PC controller tester, you get the same guarantee: your inputs are read, visualized, and forgotten the moment you close the tab.