Each section contains subsections that let you test different aspects of that feature. Previous versions of this test reported the score based on the amount of work the browsing environment completed in a fixed amount of time. Previous versions ran each of these tests only once. Finally, we've added an Overall Score that reflects the performance concerns we've heard most frequently. This score is a weighted sum of the Load Pages, JavaScript, and Java test results.
Lower values indicate better performance.
We've weighted the individual results, as you can see in Figure 1, to reflect the input we've received on the relative importance of the three tests. Java 0.05 Figure 1. Weights of the three tests whose results form the Overall Score. Please note that while we have changed the Load Pages test, the other two tests are as they were in the past. At the instruction of the PC Magazine editors, we've added the PDF test to the PC Magazine standard test mix.