How We Score A Pop Up Blocker: The popup blocker quality score is calculated based on the type of popups your software allows or disallows. Some popups should be allowed; many popup blockers can be too restrictive and may ruin your internet experience.
Listed below are the tests used to check your pop up blocking software. Each test has a score associated with it and is added to your total points. For a description of each popup test, please refer to the main page for details on each test.
Note: If you run the test without a popup blocker, you would score 35 points. Because we test a blocker’s ability to allow good popups, not having a blocker would allow you to pass the ‘allowing’ tests.
| Popup Test Name | Added points |
| Normal popup blocking | 20 |
| Full-screen popup blocking | 10 |
| Channel-opener popup blocking | 5 |
| Modeless dialog blocking | 10 |
| Browser window popup blocking | 20 |
| User-launched HREF-method popup allowing |
10 |
| User-launched JavaScript-method popup allowing |
10 |
| User-launched OnClick-method popup allowing |
10 |
| User-launched Delayed-method popup allowing |
5 |
After the score is calculated, your pop up blocking software is given one of seven possible quality ratings listed below.
| Rating | Score needed |
| Outstanding | 100 |
| Almost Perfect | More or equal than 90 |
| Very Good | More or equal than 80 |
| Above Average | More or equal than 60 |
| Average | More or equal than 40 |
| Poor | More or equal than 20 |
| Bad | More or equal than 0 |