Sorry for yet another analogy, but it's just like me telling my boss that my test suite passes but it's incomplete without telling him that I've tested only 20% of the program's functionality.
The website should at least explain just how skewed the results are in favour of conditions that arise in small, short-lived programs without (competitive) concurrency and that larger and/or longer-lived and/or concurrent programs can exhibit very different behaviour. These conditions aren't a small matter. They're among the primary motivations for the huge investment over the last few decades in moving GCs and JIT compilers.
Always.
> … website should at least explain…
Whatever the explanation, it would never be sufficient for you.
As you said -- "If you're asking what multi-lingual benchmark suites offer good coverage - I don't know."
> Whatever the explanation, it would never be sufficient for you.
Since I work on compilers and runtimes I know just how small the coverage offered on that website is. For me, no benchmark suite may ever be enough. Still, offering some of the information that is needed to put the results into context would be better than offering none.
Again, I'm not saying that the website is intentionally misleading and I have nothing against the people behind it. They may have a very good reason for why it's of such low quality. I'm just pointing out that it is.