Dec 27 -- The November rankings are live (see left bar). Nielsen has tidied social networks Myspace, Facebook, hi5 and Friendster out of their online dating rankings, leaving Yahoo Personals (1), Match (2) and TRUE (3) with the November 2005 top spots.
Not much change with the Alexa rankings. Plentyoffish and Friendfinder bump Date.com down two spots to #6. For the social networking rankings Facebook bumps Friendster out of the top 3. Myspace now leads the social networking category, followed by Hi5 and Facebook.
TRUE trumps American Singles on the Hitwise top 15 rankings for November and takes the #5 spot. Singlesnet moves up one spot to #7 and wrestles Plentyoffish and adult oriented Mate1 down one place. MSN leans on it's online dating and moves up five full places to take the #10 position. Niche site Blackpeoplemeet impressively moves up a spot to #11 and Perfect Match gets squeezed out to #12. Youngsters online dating site, Hotornot, moves up a spot to #13. - Mark Brooks
As an offline dating insider that owns online sites I am always curious about the rankings from Hitwise, Nielsen, and ComScore. Why do aggregators of sites like Vintacom's Relationship Exchange never show up. It would seem that with all the technology available these guys would have a way to know what is really going on in the space. It would also seem that they are more interested in selling their products than in accuracy of the stats.
Posted by: Robert Fisher | Dec 30, 2005 at 12:45 PM