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Well, here is the February installment of our regular AltPorn ‘A’ List Alexa Rankings study. Looks like our big winners this month are RazorDolls, moving up three spots this month, and BrokenDollz, moving up a whopping eight spots! So, I guess it’s a good month to be a doll site.

New Years day seemed like a fine enough time to publish our first follow up to the Altporn ‘A’ List Alexa Rankings article from early December 2006. We decided to remove the Google PR, since it’s not particularly germane to this study, and we’ve replaced it with a column illustrating the positional change since the last measure. 0 obviously means no change in position, positive integers indicate a rise in positional ranking as compared to other sites in the ‘A’ list, and negative integers would indicate a loss in positional rank. Again, we’d like to acknowledge that Alexa ranking is not to be taken as the purest measure, but it is one of the best measures we have available to get an idea of site popularity. This is particularly true when it comes to measuring a particular genre of sites, as their viewing demographics are likely to be somewhat similar.

If you would like more information about Alexa rankings, we recommend that you also see the original Altporn ‘A’ List Alexa Rankings article for a slightly more in depth description.

On the whole, there are some really cool and interesting sites in the altporn genre and I think we’d all agree that there is also a great deal of hype swirling around it as well these days. So, Altporn.net is allowing me to embark on a series of articles regarding actual hard statistics, in an effort to make things a bit more clear to the people interested in having a better understanding of the reality.

This chart of Alexa ranking measurements for the top sites in the genre is designed to illustrate the relative popularity of the various core altporn membership driven sites. Alexa ranking, although not perfect, is one of the best available measures of site popularity across the entire internet. Alexa is not always precise, but it’s a pretty good ballpark measure. It’s a little tricky for those unfamilliar with it’s structure, but the explaination is really pretty easy to understand. Every site on the internet is essentially ranked in order from very most visited to very least visited, and the numbers start at one for most visited. Thus, the number one most visited site on the internet according to Alexa has an Alexa rank of 1. Currently Yahoo has an Alexa rank of 1, Microsoft MSN has a rank of 2, Google has a rank of 3, MySpace has a rank of 5, YouTube has a rank of 7… you probably get the picture.

So, without further more complicated discussion of Alexa data collection, here are the actual traffic rankings, or relative popularity, of the core sites in the genre.

If there are sites that you, as readers, feel should have been included, or should not have been included, in this altporn membership site ranking chart, let us know your suggestions.

As readers of Altporn.net, we wanted to know how you feel about the crossover of fetish and altporn as genres? There are certainly models that do work in both areas. Some of the top alt-models are also very well known fetish models, frequently appearing on sites like rubber dollies, hogtied, water bondage, wired pussy, sex and submission, whipped ass, and our pick for just plain crazy weirdness fucking machines, just to name a few. But it seems like these worlds are sometimes kept fairly seperate.

Do you think it’s too much? Do you draw a line between the two, or is it just another creative exploration of wild transgressive sexuality?

There are still some rough edges, but the new design seems to be pretty much a go. What do you think of it?

What is altporn to you? Is it naked punk rock or goth chicks? Is it necessarily pornography? If not, is there a more appropriate moniker?