NapLab is where you look when you need the best mattress reviews, recommendations, and guidance.
What We Do
We put each mattress through a battery of tests designed to show the performance, its physical nature, and what it’s like to actually use.
Our recommendations are based on objective testing data and experience from years of real world testing.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help our readers discover, research, and select the mattresses that deliver the best sleep possible.
Why Should You Trust Us?
#1.
Experience
We have personally tested 320+ mattresses across 71+ brands and virtually all mattress types. Our Editor-in-Chief, Derek Hales, has been testing mattresses since 2014.
#2.
No Pay-to-Play
We do not participate in “pay-to-play” schemes. Many competing review websites rank products based on who pays them the most money. We score mattresses based on clearly defined and transparent testing criteria. Our recommendations are based on those scores.
#3.
Transparency
We publish our detailed scoring and testing process so you can see exactly how we arrive at our rankings and recommendations. You’ll also find disclosures on this page regarding how we make money, financial relationships, and other relevant info on how we operate.
#4.
Independence
NapLab is owned by Silver Poodle, LLC (a reference to a beloved pet), an Arizona LLC formed and managed by NapLab Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Derek Hales. Silver Poodle owns 100% of NapLab. The NapLab.com domain is owned by NapLab, LLC, an Arizona limited liability company (also formed and managed by Derek).
Meet The Team
NapLab is operated by a small team of passionate mattress experts.
Derek Hales
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Derek Hales is responsible for ensuring our tests and reviews deliver the absolute best recommendations and user experience. He continually looks for ways to improve our process, reviews, and recommendations. Derek has a Bachelor’s in Business.
Kayla Hein
Creative Director & Editor
Kayla heads up all things design. She helps ensure our site looks beautiful and readers have a positive memorable experience. In addition, Kayla leads our review development process. Kayla has a dual Master’s Degree in Product Design & Architecture.
Kyle Wandelt
Content Manager
Kyle is our content manager and develops most of the data, video clips, and image assets that go into our reviews. He also shoots the videos on our YouTube channel. Kyle has a Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality Management.
Samantha Hales
Director of Finance
Samantha helps keep our books and financials in order. In addition, she’s a genius at all things Excel, and helps to massively improve the efficiency of our data driven work. Samantha has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics.
Real Experience
We’ve personally tested 320+ different mattresses from 71+ different mattress brands.
Where We’re Featured
Editor-in-Chief Derek Hales has been featured in:
How We Make Money
NapLab is a business. In order to pay for our operational expenses and allow the NapLab team to earn a living NapLab.com uses referral links.
When you use our links to purchase a product or service NapLab may earn a referral commission.
These referral links don’t cost you anything extra.
They simply tell the respective company that you came from NapLab.com. These referral links financially support NapLab and let us keep doing what we do best, creating great reviews.
Our referral links may influence the products we review and write about (in addition to where those products appear on NapLab). However, our referral links do not affect our scores, which are based on our testing and scoring process.
Companies don’t pay us to review their products and they cannot pay us to rank or score them highly.
Donations
If you would like to support our work directly you can make a donation here.
Your donation helps cover our expenses (payroll, website hosting, insurance, utilities, etc.) and allows us to keep doing what we do best, create amazing reviews.
Where We Test
We test mattresses at our lab studio and within the homes of our team members.
Scottsdale, Arizona
Tests at Our Lab
We have a space that doubles as our lab and photography studio. Here we test and photograph mattresses, as well as shoot videos.
Scottsdale, Arizona
Tests in Scottsdale
Derek Hales handles most in-home mattress tests, as well as other large products. Some products simply need an in-home test to fully understand their performance.
How We Test & Score
To create our in-depth reviews we first complete a battery of tests. These mattress tests are designed to show sleepers how the mattress performs, its physical nature, and what its like to use.
We combine our objective testing data with subjective assessment to score mattresses. Our scores provide us with quantitative intelligence that we use to make mattress recommendations.
We take testing and scoring seriously. We have created an in-depth page that explains both in detail. For more information on how we test and score mattresses please see here.
Referral Links & Relationships
The following table has a list of referral relationships NapLab.com has with the brands we review and write about.
In addition, we’ve listed brands that sent us free products.
| Brand | Referral Links? | Sent Us Free Products? |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Little Monkeys | Yes | Yes |
| Allswell | Yes | Yes |
| Amazon | Yes | No |
| Amerisleep | Yes | Yes |
| Ashley Sleep | Yes | Yes |
| Avocado | Yes | Yes |
| Awara | Yes | Yes |
| Bear | Yes | Yes |
| Bedinabox | Yes | Yes |
| Big Mattress Co | Yes | Yes |
| Birch | Yes | Yes |
| Brentwood Home | Yes | Yes |
| Brooklyn Bedding | Yes | Yes |
| Casper | Yes | No |
| Classic Brands | Yes | Yes |
| Crafted Sleep | Yes | Yes |
| Costco | No | No |
| Diamond | Yes | Yes |
| DLX | Yes | Yes |
| Douglas | Yes | Yes |
| Dreamcloud | Yes | Yes |
| EcoSleep | Yes | Yes |
| Eight Sleep | Yes | Yes |
| Elm | Yes | No |
| eLuxury | Yes | Yes |
| Emma | Yes | Yes |
| Endy | Yes | Yes |
| Full Moon | Yes | Yes |
| Ghostbed | Yes | Yes |
| Habitat Furnishings | Yes | Yes |
| Happsy | Yes | Yes |
| Helix | Yes | Yes |
| IKEA | No | No |
| iSense | Yes | Yes |
| Layla | Yes | Yes |
| Leesa | Yes | Yes |
| Logan & Cove | Yes | Yes |
| Loom & Leaf | Yes | Yes |
| Lull | Yes | Yes |
| Lytton | Yes | Yes |
| Natural Form | Yes | Yes |
| Naturepedic | Yes | Yes |
| Nectar | Yes | Yes |
| Nest Bedding | Yes | Yes |
| Nolah | Yes | Yes |
| Novaform | No | No |
| Novosbed | Yes | Yes |
| Octave | Yes | Yes |
| Pillar Sleep | Yes | No |
| Plank | Yes | Yes |
| Plushbeds | Yes | Yes |
| Polysleep | Yes | Yes |
| Propel | Yes | Yes |
| Puffy | Yes | Yes |
| Purple | Yes | Yes |
| Saatva | Yes | Yes |
| Sealy | Yes | No |
| Sheets & Giggles | Yes | Yes |
| Shuteye | Yes | Yes |
| Siena | Yes | Yes |
| Silk & Snow | Yes | Yes |
| Simba | Yes | Yes |
| Sleep EZ | Yes | Yes |
| Sleep Number | No | No |
| Snooze Sleep | Yes | Yes |
| Spindle | Yes | Yes |
| Suilong | Yes | Yes |
| Sweetnight | Yes | Yes |
| Tempurpedic | Yes | Yes |
| Tempur | No | No |
| Titan | Yes | Yes |
| Tuft & Needle | Yes | No |
| Winkbed | Yes | Yes |
| Vaya | Yes | Yes |
| Zenhaven | Yes | Yes |
| Zinus | Yes | No |
| Zoma | Yes | Yes |
We periodically update the above table. However, if it looks like something is missing or if you have any questions on our financial interests, company relationships, referral links, free products, or anything else, please send us an email here.
We participate in a variety of referral link programs. Some programs are with eCommerce platforms (like Amazon), some are through a 3rd party network (like ShareASale), and some are direct with a mattress brand.
In many cases, there are different referral programs available that sell the same mattress. We choose our referral programs based on a combination of where we think our readers most want to purchase a mattress from and on the commission rate.
Amazon.com Disclosure
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Still Have Questions?
If have any questions please don’t hesitate to send us your questions here.
