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WebXPRT 3 is here!

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on February 27, 2018

We’re excited to announce that WebXPRT 3 is now available to the public. BenchmarkXPRT Development Community members have been using a community preview for several weeks, but now anyone can run WebXPRT 3 and publish their results.

As we mentioned on the blog, WebXPRT 3 has a completely new UI, updated workloads, and new test content. We carried over several features from WebXPRT 2015 including automation, the option to run individual workloads, and language options for English, German, and Simplified Chinese.

We believe WebXPRT 3 will be as relevant and reliable as WebXPRT 2013 and 2015. After trying it out, please submit your scores and feel free to let us know what you think. We look forward to seeing new results submissions!

Posted in BenchmarkXPRT development community, Browser-based benchmarks, Community Preview, Cross-platform benchmarks, German, Performance benchmarking, Simplified Chinese, Web-based testing, WebXPRT, WebXPRT 3 |

Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community release WebXPRT 3, a free online performance evaluation tool for web-enabled devices

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on February 27, 2018

Durham, NC — Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community have released WebXPRT 3, a free online tool that gives objective information about how well a laptop, tablet, smartphone, or any other web-enabled device handles common web tasks. Anyone can go to WebXPRT.com and compare existing performance evaluation results on a variety of devices or run a simple evaluation test on their own.

WebXPRT 3 contains six HTML5- and JavaScript-based scenarios created to mirror common web browser tasks: Photo Enhancement, Organize Album Using AI, Stock Option Pricing, Encrypt Notes and OCR Scan, Sales Graphs, and Online Homework.

“WebXPRT is a popular, easy-to-use benchmark run by manufacturers, tech journalists, and consumers all around the world,” said Bill Catchings, co-founder of Principled Technologies, which administers the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community. “We believe that WebXPRT 3 is a great addition to WebXPRT’s legacy of providing relevant and reliable performance data for a wide range of devices.”

WebXPRT is one of the BenchmarkXPRT suite of performance evaluation tools. Other tools include MobileXPRT, TouchXPRT, CrXPRT, BatteryXPRT, and HDXPRT. The XPRTs help users get the facts before they buy, use, or evaluate tech products such as computers, tablets, and phones.

To learn more about and join the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community, go to www.BenchmarkXPRT.com.

About Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of technology marketing and learning & development services. It administers the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community.

Principled Technologies, Inc. is located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. For more information, please visit www.PrincipledTechnologies.com.

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Principled Technologies, Inc.
1007 Slater Road, Ste. 300
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BenchmarkXPRTsupport@PrincipledTechnologies.com

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WebXPRT 3 arrives next week!

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on February 22, 2018

After much development work and testing, we’re happy to report that we’ll be releasing WebXPRT 3 early next week!

Here are the final workload names and descriptions.

1) Photo Enhancement: Applies three effects to two photos each using Canvas.
2) Organize Album Using AI: Detects faces and classifies images using the ConvNetJS neural network library.
3) Stock Option Pricing: Calculates and displays graphics views of a stock portfolio using Canvas, SVG, and dygraphs.js.
4) Encrypt Notes and OCR Scan: Encrypts notes in local storage and scans a receipt using optical character recognition.
5) Sales Graphs: Calculates and displays multiple views of sales data using InfoVis and d3.js.
6) Online Homework: Performs science and English homework using Web Workers and Typo.js spell check.

As we mentioned in an earlier blog post, the updated photo workloads contain new images and a deep learning task. We also added an optical character recognition task to the Local Notes workload and combined part of the DNA Sequence Analysis scenario with a writing sample/spell check scenario to simulate online homework in the new Online Homework workload.

Longtime WebXPRT users will immediately notice a completely new UI. We worked to improve the UI’s appearance on smaller devices such as phones and we think testers will find it easier to navigate.

Testers can still choose to run individual workloads and we’re once again offering English, German, and Simplified Chinese language options.

Below my sig, I’ve included pictures of WebXPRT 3’s start test and results pages, as well as an in-test screen capture.

We’re thankful for all the interest in WebXPRT 3 so far and believe the new version of WebXPRT will be as relevant and reliable as WebXPRT 2013 and 2015—and easier to use. We look forward to seeing new results submissions next week!

Justin

WebXPRT 3 start page

WebXPRT 3 in test

Results page

Posted in BenchmarkXPRT development community, Browser-based benchmarks, Collaborative benchmark development, Cross-platform benchmarks, Performance benchmarking, WebXPRT, WebXPRT 2015, WebXPRT 3 |

New features for the WebXPRT Processor Comparison Chart

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on February 1, 2018

We’re excited that the WebXPRT 2015 Processor Comparison Chart is becoming a valuable resource for community members and visitors interested in comparing web-browsing performance scores. When we introduced the chart, we mentioned that the first iteration was only the beginning. We planned to add additional capabilities on a regular basis, and today we’re happy to announce some new features.

The chart now offers a drop-down menu for displaying more than 20 results per page. (You can choose 20, 50, 100, or all.) When you click on a system to view the details of its score, you will see that we added a column displaying browser information. If the “Browser” column entry shows as “Unknown,” this means we can’t find browser information for a specific test result.

We’re also working on adding a drop-down menu for filtering scores by device type (laptop, tablet, etc.).

We hope these features will prove to be helpful. We want the chart to continue to be a great asset for its users, so if you have ideas for features and types of data you’d like to see, let us know!

Justin

Posted in BenchmarkXPRT, BenchmarkXPRT development community, Browser-based benchmarks, Cross-platform benchmarks, Performance benchmarking |

The WebXPRT 3 Community Preview is here!

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on December 14, 2017

Today we’re releasing the WebXPRT 3 Community Preview (CP). As we discussed in the blog last month, in the new version of WebXPRT, we updated the photo-related workloads with new images and a new deep learning task for the Organize Album workload. We also added an optical character recognition task to the Local Notes workload and combined a portion of the DNA Sequence Analysis scenario with a writing sample/spell check scenario to simulate an online homework hub in the new “Online Homework” workload.

Also, longtime WebXPRT users will immediately notice a completely new, but clean and straightforward, UI. We’re still tweaking aspects of the UI and implementing full functionality for certain features such as social media sharing and German language translation, but we don’t anticipate making any significant changes to the overall test or individual workloads before the general release.

As with all community previews, the WebXPRT 3 CP is available only to BenchmarkXPRT Development Community members, who can access the link from the WebXPRT tab in the Members’ Area.

After you try the WebXPRT 3 CP, please send us your comments. Thanks and happy testing!

Justin

Posted in BenchmarkXPRT development community, Browser-based benchmarks, Collaborative benchmark development, Community Preview, Cross-platform benchmarks, Future of performance evaluation, German, Performance benchmarking, WebXPRT, WebXPRT 3 |

News about WebXPRT and BatteryXPRT

Justin Greene
By Justin Greene
on December 7, 2017

Last month, we gave readers a glimpse of the updates in store for the next WebXPRT, and now we have more news to report on that front.

The new version of WebXPRT will be called WebXPRT 3. WebXPRT 3 will retain the convenient features that made WebXPRT 2013 and WebXPRT 2015 our most popular tools, with more than 200,000 combined runs to date. We’ve added new elements, including AI, to a few of the workloads, but the test will still run in 15 minutes or less in most browsers and produce the same easy-to-understand results that help compare browsing performance across a wide variety of devices.

We’re also very close to publishing the WebXPRT 3 Community Preview. For those unfamiliar with our open development community model, BenchmarkXPRT Development Community members have the ability to preview and test new benchmark tools before we release them to the general public. Community previews are a great way for members to evaluate new XPRTs and send us feedback. If you’re interested in joining, you can register here.

In BatteryXPRT news, we recently started to see unusual battery life estimates and high variance when running battery life tests at the default length of 5.25 hours. We think this may be due to changes in how new OS versions are reporting battery life on certain devices, but we’re in the process of extensive testing to learn more. In the meantime, we recommend that BatteryXPRT users adjust the test run time to allow for a full rundown.

Do you have questions or comments about WebXPRT or BatteryXPRT? Let us know!

Justin

Posted in AI, Battery life, BatteryXPRT 2014 for Android, BenchmarkXPRT, BenchmarkXPRT development community, Browser-based benchmarks, Community Preview, Cross-platform benchmarks, Future of performance evaluation, Performance benchmarking, WebXPRT, WebXPRT 3 |

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