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WebXPRT appearances in recent articles, reviews, and more!

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on February 5, 2026

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been excited to see steady growth in the number of people running the WebXPRT 5 Preview—as well as how widely distributed those runs are around the world. To get a picture of WebXPRT’s approximate global reach, we run the IP address data from our database through a program that provides general city- and country-level location information. By tallying that location data, we can better understand where people are running WebXPRT. By the way, this is the most detailed information we have, and all test data will remain completely anonymous unless you submit it for publication.

Based on that info—along with direct feedback from users—we’ve determined that OEM labs, tech press journalists, and individual consumers have already run the WebXPRT 5 Preview in more than 125 cities across 35 countries!

Test run data is just one of the ways that we track the progress we’re making toward our goal of providing all interested parties with benchmark tools that are reliable, relevant, and free to use. Another important way we track progress toward that goal is by paying attention to how much people use and discuss the XPRTs. When the name of one of our apps appears in an ad, article, or tech review, we call it a “mention.” Tracking those kinds of mentions helps us gauge our reach.

From time to time, we like to share a sample of recent XPRT mentions here in the blog. If you just started following the XPRTs, it may be surprising to see our global reach. Whether you’re a new visitor to the XPRT blog or a longtime reader, we hope you’ll enjoy exploring the links below!

Recent mentions include:

If you’d like to receive monthly updates on XPRT-related news and activity, we encourage you to sign up for our XPRT newsletter. It’s completely free, and all you need to do to join the newsletter mailing list is let us know! We won’t publish, share, or sell any of the contact information you provide, and we’ll only send you the monthly newsletter and occasional benchmark-related announcements, such as important news about patches or releases.

If you have any questions about the WebXPRT 5 Preview or the XPRTs in general, please feel free to contact us.

Justin

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Check out the new XPRTs around the world infographic!

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on January 30, 2025

As we look forward to continued growth for the XPRTs in 2025, it’s also a fitting time to take stock of just how much their reach has already grown around the globe. In the marketing world, reach is often defined as the size of the audience that sees and/or engages with your content. We track XPRT reach with several metrics—including completed test runs, benchmark downloads, and mentions of the XPRTs in advertisements, articles, and tech reviews. Gathering this information gives us insight into how many people are using the XPRTs, and it provides a sense of the impact the XPRTs are having around the world. It also helps us understand the needs of those who use them.

From time to time, we publish an updated version of an “XPRTs around the world” infographic, which features highlights from the reach metrics we track. This week, we published a new version of the infographic that includes the following highlights:

  • Over 4,100 unique sites have collectively mentioned the XPRTs more than 20,500 times.
  • Those mentions include more than 12,900 tech articles and reviews.
  • XPRT tech press mentions and test runs have originated in over 983 cities located in 84 countries on six continents. New cities of note include San Salvador, El Salvador; Salamanca, Mexico; Fes, Morocco; Wanaka, New Zealand; and Luzern, Switzerland.

In addition to the reach metrics we mention above, the XPRTs have now delivered more than 2,020,000 real-world results! We’re grateful for everyone who’s used the XPRTs and has spread the word to others. Your active involvement makes it possible for us to achieve our overall goals: to provide benchmark tools that are reliable, relevant, free, and simple to use.

Justin

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Recent XPRT mentions in the global tech press

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on January 2, 2025

One way we assess the XPRTs’ ongoing effectiveness is to regularly track the reach of our benchmarks in the global tech press. If tech journalists decide to include an XPRT benchmark in their suite of “go-to” performance evaluation tools, we know that decision reflects a high degree of confidence in the relevance and reliability of our benchmarks. It’s especially exciting for us to see the XPRTs win the trust of more tech press outlets in an ever-increasing number of countries around the world.

Because some of our newer readers may be unaware of the wide variety of tech press outlets that use the XPRTs, we occasionally like to share an overview of recent XPRT-related global tech press activity. For today’s blog, we want to give readers a sampling of the press mentions we’ve seen over the past few months.

Recent mentions include:

If you’d like to receive monthly updates on XPRT news, we encourage you to sign up for the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community newsletter. Each month, the newsletter delivers a summary of the previous month’s XPRT-related activity, including XPRT blog posts and new mentions of the XPRTs in the tech press. If you don’t currently receive the monthly BenchmarkXPRT newsletter but would like to join the mailing list, please let us know! It’s free to join. We won’t publish, share, or sell any of the contact information you provide, and we’ll send you only the monthly newsletter and occasional benchmark-related announcements, such as news about patches or new releases.

If you have any questions about the XPRTs, suggestions for improvement, or requests for future blogs, please just contact us.

Justin

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How to automate your WebXPRT 4 testing

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on August 22, 2024

We’re excited about the ongoing upward trend in the number of completed WebXPRT 4 runs that we’re seeing each month. OEM and tech press labs are responsible for a significant amount of that growth, and many of them use WebXPRT’s automation features to complete large blocks of hands-off testing at one time. We realize that many new WebXPRT users may be unfamiliar with the benchmark’s automation tools, so we decided to provide a quick guide to WebXPRT automation in today’s blog. Whether you’re testing one or 1,000 devices, the instructions below can help save you some time.

WebXPRT 4 allows users to run scripts in an automated fashion and control test execution by appending parameters and values to the WebXPRT URL. Three parameters are available:

  • test type
  • test scenarios
  • results

Below, you’ll find a description of those parameters and instructions for how you can use them to automate your test runs.

Test type

The WebXPRT automation framework accounts for two test types: (1) the six core workloads, and (2) any experimental workloads we might add in future builds. There are currently no experimental tests in WebXPRT 4, so always set the test type variable to 1.

  • Core tests: 1

Test scenario

The test scenario parameter lets you specify which subtest workloads to run by using the following codes:

  • Photo enhancement: 1
  • Organize album using AI: 2
  • Stock option pricing: 4
  • Encrypt notes and OCR scan using WASM: 8
  • Sales graphs: 16
  • Online homework: 32

To run a single subtest workload, use its code. To run multiple workloads, use the sum of their codes. For example, to run Stock options pricing (4) and Encrypt notes and OCR scan (8), use the sum of 12. To run all core tests, use 63, the sum of all the individual test codes (1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 = 63).

Results format

The results format parameter lets you select the format of the results:

  • Display the result as an HTML table: 1
  • Display the result as XML: 2
  • Display the result as CSV: 3
  • Download the result as CSV: 4

To use the automation feature, start with the URL https://www.principledtechnologies.com/benchmarkxprt/webxprt/2021/wx4_build_3_7_3, append a question mark (?), and add the parameters and values separated by ampersands (&). For example, to run all the core tests and download the results, you would use the following URL: https://principledtechnologies.com/benchmarkxprt/webxprt/2021/wx4_build_3_7_3/auto.php?testtype=1&tests=63&result=4

We hope WebXPRT 4’s automation features will make testing easier for you. If you have any questions about WebXPRT or the automation process, please feel free to ask!

Justin

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Shopping for back-to-school tech? The XPRTs can help!

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on August 8, 2024

For many students, the first day of school is just around the corner, and it’s now time to shop for new tech devices that can help set them up for success in the coming year. The tech marketplace can be confusing, however, with so many brands, options, and competing claims to sort through.

Fortunately, the XPRTs are here to help!

Whether you’re shopping for a new phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop, or desktop, the XPRTs can provide industry-trusted performance scores that can give you confidence that you’re making a smart purchasing decision.

The WebXPRT 4 results viewer is a good place to start looking for device scores. The viewer displays WebXPRT 4 scores from over 700 devices—including many of the latest releases—and we’re adding new scores all the time. To learn more about the viewer’s capabilities and how you can use it to compare devices, check out this blog post.

Another resource we offer is the XPRT results browser. The browser is the most efficient way to access the XPRT results database, which currently holds more than 3,700 test results from over 150 sources, including major tech review publications around the world, manufacturers, and independent testers. It offers a wealth of current and historical performance data across all the XPRT benchmarks and hundreds of devices. You can read more about how to use the results browser here.

Also, if you’re considering a popular device, there’s a good chance that a recent tech review includes an XPRT score for that device. There are two quick ways to find these reviews: You can either (1) search for “XPRT” on your preferred tech review site or (2) use a search engine and input the device name and XPRT name, such as “Dell XPS” and “WebXPRT.”

Here are a few recent tech reviews that use one of the XPRTs to evaluate a popular device:

Lastly, here at Principled Technologies, we frequently publish reports that evaluate the performance of hot new consumer devices, and many of those reports include WebXPRT scores. For example, check out our extensive testing of HP ZBook G10 mobile workstations or our detailed comparison of Lenovo ThinkPad, ThinkBook, and ThinkCentre devices to their Apple Mac counterparts.

The XPRTs can help anyone stuck in the back-to-school shopping blues make better-informed and more confident tech purchases. As this new school year begins, we hope you’ll find the data you need on our site or in an XPRT-related tech review. If you have any questions about the XPRTs, XPRT scores, or the results database please feel free to ask!

Justin

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XPRT mentions in the tech press

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on April 4, 2024

One of the ways we monitor the effectiveness of the XPRT family of benchmarks is to regularly track XPRT usage and reach in the global tech press. Many tech journalists invest a lot of time and effort into producing thorough device reviews, and relevant and reliable benchmarks such as the XPRTs often serve as indispensable parts of a reviewer’s toolkit. Trust is hard-earned and easily lost in the benchmarking community, so we’re happy when our benchmarks consistently achieve “go-to” status for a growing number of tech assessment professionals around the world.

Because some of our newer readers may be unaware of the wide variety of outlets that regularly use the XPRTs, we occasionally like to share an overview of recent XPRT-related tech press activity. For today’s blog, we want to give readers a sampling of the press mentions we’ve seen over the past few months.

Recent mentions include:

Each month, we send out a BenchmarkXPRT Development Community newsletter that contains the latest updates from the XPRT world and provides a summary of the previous month’s XPRT-related activity, including new mentions of the XPRTs in the tech press. If you don’t currently receive the monthly BenchmarkXPRT newsletter but would like to join the mailing list, please let us know! There is no cost to join, and we will not publish or sell any of the contact information you provide. We will send only the monthly newsletter and occasional benchmark-related announcements, such as news about patches or new releases.

Justin

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