Feedback request: Best Portable Vape Rankings & Categories

ohmygodimsohigh

ohmygodimsohigh

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Greetings and salutations, vape fam!

I've spent several months overhauling my portable vape review page, and I need your feedback.

It started with a spreadsheet of all the portable vaporizers.
I ranked them on a scale of 1-10, and then ranked them again based on the following categories:
- Vapor Potency
- Vapor Comfort
- Portability
- Battery
- Build Quality
- Usability
- Packaging
- Warranty / Brand Reputation
- Maintenance

Question - Do those ranking factors make sense? Is there anything missing?

For my 2025 Best Portable Vaporizer update, I came up with 12 "best of" lists that align with common decision-making factors.
- Best Hard Hitting Portables
- Best Portable Vapes Overall
- Best Value
- Best Vapor
- Best On-Demand
- With Replaceable Battery
- Pocket Friendly Portables
- Butane Vapes
- Best Cheap Vapes
- Portable vaporizers for a bong
- best conduction / stoney high

Question - Do these categories cover all of the major angles? Are any of these categories confusing? What's missing?

Lastly, is the page too big??
Tbh when I started working on it, I had the attitude of "this is my last 420vapezone content" and I wanted it to make it as complete and insightful as possible.
But then it turned into a very big page and I worry that it's too big.
Is it redundant? What can I do to make this page better?

The individual vape rankings are at the bottom of the page here: https://420vapezone.com/best-portable-vaporizers/#All-Portable-Vape-Rankings-Results
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Flotsam

Flotsam

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Interesting idea. I've had to do something like this before at work for Source Selection.

  • I was going to add a parameter for Stealth (how easy is it to conceal?) or i guess you could combine that with Pocket ability -or- maybe Packaging (although i am guessing you are thinking something else).
  • Another parameter might be Readiness. A manual vape that uses a torch and always available would be at the top while a vape with poor battery performance might not be ready when you really want it.
  • Someone else who is so inclined might want a parameter to make Giant clouds (not me) -or- best taste.
  • Maybe a category selection for desktop or portable , not to rate but to categorize.
  • Not sure what vapor comfort is, but maybe it is when the hit is too hot?
  • By maintenance i suppose you mean cleaning and the like? If it breaks & needs maintenance somehow that is serious points off.
  • almost forgot probably one of the most important parameters : cost

All just some ideas about parameters.

Is this in Google docs? If so you can set up a filter on column so someone could easily find top vapor potency for instance.

The other suggestion i was going to make is each of these parameters you describe could have a Weighting factor. Right now you have it that they are all weighted equally & all the parameters together equal 100 %. You could start with everything weighted equally and then allow people to individually tweek to their liking.

If you allowed these to be weighted for instance in my case Stealth would be a top key performance parameter (KPP) and i might bump that weighting factor up, Giant clouds much lower , Maintaining taste also very high. Readiness for me would be higher because i have so few devices it seems like they are not charged when i want them to be. I guess it all comes down to people's use cases.

so to OP so you have experience with all these vapes? I am impressed. You could throw it out there to see what other people's opinions are and see what the consolidated results are , but the problem is that some people may not have ever tried one of those other devices and cannot rate it. In general i think i would trust the ratings of someone a lot more experienced than me. Thanks
 
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seedy53

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ohmygodimsohigh said:
Greetings and salutations, vape fam!

I've spent several months overhauling my portable vape review page, and I need your feedback.

It started with a spreadsheet of all the portable vaporizers.
I ranked them on a scale of 1-10, and then ranked them again based on the following categories:
- Vapor Potency
- Vapor Comfort
- Portability
- Battery
- Build Quality
- Usability
- Packaging
- Warranty / Brand Reputation
- Maintenance

Question - Do those ranking factors make sense? Is there anything missing?

For my 2025 Best Portable Vaporizer update, I came up with 12 "best of" lists that align with common decision-making factors.
- Best Hard Hitting Portables
- Best Portable Vapes Overall
- Best Value
- Best Vapor
- Best On-Demand
- With Replaceable Battery
- Pocket Friendly Portables
- Butane Vapes
- Best Cheap Vapes
- Portable vaporizers for a bong
- best conduction / stoney high

Question - Do these categories cover all of the major angles? Are any of these categories confusing? What's missing?

Lastly, is the page too big??
Tbh when I started working on it, I had the attitude of "this is my last 420vapezone content" and I wanted it to make it as complete and insightful as possible.
But then it turned into a very big page and I worry that it's too big.
Is it redundant? What can I do to make this page better?

The individual vape rankings are at the bottom of the page here: https://420vapezone.com/best-portable-vaporizers/#All-Portable-Vape-Rankings-Results
portable-vape-ratings-january-vapezone.png
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how about bugs category
 
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Cheebsy

Cheebsy

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The worst vape is rated only 11% less than the best at 85 compared to 96 out of 100 by moving the decimal.... Seems like you need a different scale to me otherwise it's pretty much meaningless.
 
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Flotsam

Flotsam

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Cheebsy said:
The worst vape is rated only 11% less than the best at 85 compared to 96 out of 100 by moving the decimal.... Seems like you need a different scale to me otherwise it's pretty much meaningless.
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Weighting would help with that
 
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Gorf

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I think this is pretty sensible for us nerds. It's easy to find the relevant sections based on what's most important to the individual user.
 
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