Compete.com Attention 200

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

Comments

[Jonathan Crutchley]

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.

[Markus]

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.

[Jonathan Crutchley]

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.