THE PARADIGM SHIFT -- Feb 6 -- Compete.com has just released a monthly index of the top 200 sites in the USA ranked by time spent on the site. I've extracted the online personals rankings for you to review, below.
The full article was originally published at Compete, but is no longer available.
Rank Site
1 myspace
7 pogo
8 facebook
10 craigslist
12 youtube
13 live
18 neopets
19 adultfriendfinder
24 photobucket
31 match
36 bebo
55 blackplanet
67 singlesnet
73 plentyoffish
79 livejournal
88 eharmony
95 hi5
101 tagged
115 classmates
126 true
131 manhunt.net
146 userplane
159 adam4adam
163 hornymatches
167 ezboard
173 alt
176 blackpeoplemeet
189 friendster
Their numbers don't add up. For example, our website at Manhunt.net is #131 in time spent per member by their calculation, and the average member spends 33:08 minutes per visit on our site. Compare to PlentyOfFish at #73 rank, and the average member spends 15:44 minutes on PlentyOfFish site. Or Match.com's (rank #31) average member spends 13:32 minutes on that site. It seems the higher the rank, the less time spent on the site, the reverse of what you should expect.
Posted by: Jonathan Crutchley | Feb 07, 2007 at 11:18 PM
That is because you aren't taking visitors into account. Obviously a site with 1000 visitors who spend 20 hours a day isn't going to outrank a site with 1 million visitors a day who spend 10 minutes online.
Posted by: Markus | Feb 08, 2007 at 02:00 PM
Thanks for the translation, Markus, but I find no clear, concise definition from Compete as to what they are measuring. You are a techie, and therefore a better reader of the minds of other techies.
Posted by: Jonathan Crutchley | Feb 10, 2007 at 12:25 AM