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Test Bench 1.2  
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By Thomas SzwedskaUpdated Mar 09, 2026 at 10:47 am

Mattress Test Bench 1.2 refines the way we present weight category information at the top of our mattress reviews. This change allows you to clearly determine whether a mattress is suitable for your needs based on your body weight and sleeping position. To do this, we've added sub-usages in the Verdict section of our reviews.

What's Changed?

New Sub-Usages for Sleeping Positions:

  • Light Weight
  • Average Weight
  • Heavy Weight

Why Are We Making These Changes?

Sub-Usages

In Mattress Test Bench 1.1, we introduced new sleeping position usages at the top of our reviews that took the sleeper's body weight into account. These usages presented the general suitability of a mattress for a given sleeping position by presenting an aggregate score of a mattress's performance for light, average, and heavy weight sleepers together. While you could find results about a particular weight category in the usage tool tip, the general score could be misleading for your body weight if you didn't look deeper. To overcome this limitation, Test Bench 1.2 now presents weight-specific scores right in the Verdict box.

Test Bench 1.1 Test Bench 1.2
An image of our Side Sleeping usage from Test Bench 1.1
The Side Sleeping Usage for the Saatva Latex Hybrid on Test Bench 1.1
An image of our new Side Sleeping usage from Test Bench 1.2, including our new sub-usages showing scores for weight categories.
The new Side Sleeping Usage with sub-usages for the Saatva Latex Hybrid on Test Bench 1.2

This change makes it easier for users to understand the sleeping position scores and clearly presents what you can expect from a mattress for your specific sleeper profile. Another benefit of this change is that you can now easily compare mattress scores across different weight and sleeping position combinations within our table tool:

Results Table Tool for Test Bench 1.1 Results Table Tool for Test Bench 1.2
An image of the old Results Table Tool showing just the Side Sleeping usage.
The Results Table Tool from Test Bench 1.1, sorted by Side Sleeping usage
The Results Table Tool from Test Bench 1.2, sorted by Side Sleeping usage, showing the new weight sub-usages. This allows you to compare mattresses by weight category and sleeping position to best determine the mattress that suits your needs.

What do you think of these new changes? Is there anything else you'd like to see? Let us know in the comments!

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We have retested popular models. The test results for the following models have been converted to the new testing methodology. However, the text might be inconsistent with the new results.

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