This object sets the weight assigned to a specific metric within a Distributed Director profile, used alongside priority to compute an overall server-selection score. While priority breaks ties, weight lets an admin blend multiple metrics proportionally, so a metric with a higher weight has more influence over the final composite score even when it's not the top-priority metric. An admin might give a load metric a moderate weight and a latency metric a higher weight, so that a slightly busier but much closer server is still selected over a farther, lightly-loaded one.