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WebXPRT appearances in recent articles, reviews, and more!

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

Looking back on 2023 with the XPRTs

Around the beginning of each new year, we like to take the opportunity to look back and summarize the XPRT highlights from the previous year. Readers of our newsletter are familiar with the stats and updates we include each month, but for our blog readers who don’t receive the newsletter, we’ve compiled highlights from 2023 below.

Benchmarks
In March, we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of WebXPRT! WebXPRT 4 has now taken the lead as the most commonly-used version of WebXPRT, even as the overall number of runs has continued to grow.

XPRTs in the media
Journalists, advertisers, and analysts referenced the XPRTs thousands of times in 2023. It’s always rewarding to know that the XPRTs have proven to be useful and reliable assessment tools for technology publications around the world. Media sites that used the XPRTs in 2023 include 3DNews (Russia), AnandTech, Benchlife.info (China), CHIP.pl (Poland), ComputerBase (Germany), eTeknix, Expert Reviews, Gadgetrip (Japan), Gadgets 360, Gizmodo, Hardware.info, IT168.com (China), ITC.ua (Ukraine), ITWorld (Korea), iXBT.com (Russia), Lyd & Bilde (Norway), Notebookcheck, Onchrome (Germany), PCMag, PCWorld, QQ.com (China), Tech Advisor, TechPowerUp, TechRadar, Tom’s Guide, TweakTown, Yesky.com (China), and ZDNet.

Downloads and confirmed runs
In 2023, we had more than 16,800 benchmark downloads and 296,800 confirmed runs. Users have run our most popular benchmark, WebXPRT, more than 1,376,500 times since its debut in 2013! WebXPRT continues to be a go-to, industry-standard performance benchmark for OEM labs, vendors, and leading tech press outlets around the globe.

Trade shows
In January, Justin attended the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Las Vegas. In March, Mark attended Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona. You can view Justin’s recap of CES here and Mark’s thoughts from MWC here.

We’re thankful for everyone who used the XPRTs and sent questions and suggestions throughout 2023. We’re excited to see what’s in store for the XPRTs in 2024!

Justin

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