Light weight but still has the comfort of the gel. Probably need to have Gelly Grippers as my mats move from its place sometimes on the wooden floor. GelPro mats are expensive but this mat was affordable. Our last mats which we got were 5-10 yrs old and were the elite type which had the edges  tearing and folding- I believe a design flaw in that variety in the previous models. This time I did not want to spend that much money and we started to re purpose the old ones in different rooms now and got these new ones for the kitchen. So far it has been more than a month of use and are very happy.