Mattress Reviews & Ratings Summary → Based on Data From Over 9,050 Actual Owners
Page last updated July 29, 2010.
What You Need To Know
Memory foam, air, water and latex mattresses generally rate significantly higher than innerspring mattresses in regard to both comfort and durability / longevity, according to our research involving thousands of owners.
In addition, each mattress type has its own distinct characteristics, advantages and disadvantages that you should know before making a purchase.
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About Our Research
The sources for the research data include at least 9,000 reviews / comments of actual mattress owners collected from diverse, credible sources.
Click here for more information on our sources and unbiased research methodology.
Comfort Ratings by Mattress Type
| Mattress
Type (sample size) |
Percent
of owners indicating mattress type is comfortable |
| Air (1343) |
80% |
| Innerspring (2264) |
61% |
| Latex (503) |
78% |
| Memory
Foam (4476) |
81% |
| Futon (605) |
66% |
| Water (253) |
79% |
The maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
Comfort Ratings By Mattress Brand -- Alphabetical Order
(Each of the following mattress brands has a sample size of at least 80)
| Mattress
Brand (type) |
Percent
of owners indicating brand is comfortable |
| Aerus (memory foam) |
79% |
| Bergad
/ Isoform (memory foam) |
80% |
| Bodipedic (memory foam) |
82% |
| Bragada (memory foam) |
72% |
| Comfortaire (airbed) |
83% |
| Kingsdown (innerspring) |
60% |
| Night Therapy (memory foam) |
82% |
| Sealy
Posturepedic (innerspring) |
65% |
| Sealy SpringFree (latex) |
73% |
| Select-a-Firmness (memory foam) |
80% |
| Serta (innerspring) |
62% |
| Simmons
Beautyrest (innerspring) |
61% |
| Sleep
Innov/Novaform (memory foam) |
78% |
| Sleep
Number / Select Comfort (airbed) |
79% |
| Spa Sensations (memory foam) |
82% |
| Spring
Air (innerspring) |
42% |
| Stearns
& Foster (innerspring) |
59% |
| Tempur-Pedic (memory foam) |
80% |
The maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage
points.
IMPORTANT -- The above ratings do not guarantee that you personally will find a top-rated mattress to be
comfortable and a lower-rated mattress to be less comfortable.
Each individual person is different and has different preferences.
The above ratings represent an aggregate of owner reviews
/ comments and are meant to be one factor to consider when
looking for a bed. You should, of course, test a bed before
purchase to ensure as much as possible that it is right for
you personally.
Supplemental
Findings
The mattress brands below are not included with the mattresses
above because their sample sizes and / or number or sources are currently too small to provide a fair and accurate comparison. However,
we provide the limited owner experience information about
them that we have collected.
- Adjustable bed bases
- Aerobed (airbed)
- Aireloom (innerspring)
- American Sleep Collection (airbed)
- Angel Bed (memory foam)
- Bed in a Box (memory foam)
- Bob-O-Pedic (memory foam)
- Craftmatic (adjustable)
- Denver Mattress (innerspring)
- Dormia (memory foam, latex hybrid, adjustable)
- Duxiana bed (innerspring)
- ECO (latex)
- Englander (innerspring and latex)
- Flobeds (latex)
- Heavenly bed (innerspring)
- Ikea (innerspring)
- Ikea (foam)
- Ikea (latex)
- Intellibed (gel)
- King Koil mattress (innerspring)
- Marriott Bed (regular foam)
- Miralux (latex)
- Natures Rest
- Restonic (innerspring)
- SAT bed (air)
- Savvy Rest (latex)
- Sealy Embody (latex)
- Serta Pure Response (latex)
- Serta True Response (memory foam)
- Simmons Comforpedic (memory foam)
- Sleep Science (memory foam)
- Sonno Prima (foam & memory foam)
- Stearns and Foster (latex)
- Stearns and Foster (memory foam)
- Sterling (combination)
- Vera Wang (combination)