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Since we are catching up on a few things. Here are the latest Compete.com rankings for our continuing AltPorn A-List Traffic and Popularity Study. Compete.com reports on a monthly basis, with statistic totals showing from the previous month. This means these are December 2007 stats, not up to the minute, according to Compete.com. The only real news here is the impressive entry of newer sites like GeekGirlsOnline and PunkGrl, hitting the chart in solid positions. CrazyBabe swapped positions with BlueBlood’s GothicSluts, as also reported on the QuantCast stats from yesterday. Otherwise, several sites slipped a slot or two as new sites entered the rankings.

We’ve had some shakeup in the monthly QuantCast edition of our AltPorn A-List Traffic and Site Popularity Study. Bob Coulter’s CrazyBabe pops up to the top of the chart, swapping positions with last month’s leader BlueBlood’s GothicSluts. SuicideGirls holds position two, followed again by BlueBlood’s BarelyEvil, also unchanged in position. The exciting news is the dramatic entry of GeekGirlsOnline, with a statistical debut all the way up in position seven. Nice work Athena Hollow! AltPorn.net slipped three spots, which we deserve for not updating for a couple weeks. Although, GodsGirls fell three as well. PunkGrl is entering the ranks well, up five spots, to position seventeen, and BellaVendetta has fallen the hardest of the group this month, losing six slots and ending up ranking twenty second of the AltPorn A-List.

I’d like to apologize, on behalf of everyone at APN. We’ve all simultaneously been overwhelmed with project work. I hear we may be interviewing for some more writer positions in the near future, so keep on the lookout for that. As always, we want to hear from you about new sites that should be ranked and added to the charts.

* Rank: Works like Alexa, lower is better.
** EMV: Estimated Monthly Visitors

Just a small announcement. We’re working on checking over the extensive link list we have here, archiving dead sites and in some cases reclassifying entries. We’ve split model sites out into two groups, one for portfolio sites and that sort of thing, and the other list is for girls that have their own membership sites.

Happy New Year everyone. We hope you all had a good time and we look forward to a great oh-eight. This month’s AltPorn A-List Traffic and Popularity Study Alexa Edition brings us little change in the standings. BlueBlood’s punky BarelyEvil got a bit of a December bounce, moving up three spots to take the number three spot, rising above their GothicSluts site, as well as Bob Coulter’s CrazyBabe and NaughtyFlipside. It looks like NaughtyFlipside did just enough content to put out a DVD and had not put up anything new since. Should we keep them on the chart as long as they are live, or should there be a limit on non-updating sites? What are your opinions? On the lower rungs of the rankings, relatively young site PunkGrl continued to rise, up two spots, along with another recent addition LazerBunny, also up two spots. Plus, we’ve just added newcomer GeekGirlsOnline, which debuts in slot 21. As always, we encourage your suggestions for more ways to measure the most accurate public measures of AltPorn site traffic and popularity.

I was looking around at the blogs and this entry from the Spookylinks site caught my eye (I hope they don’t mind I grabbed it, some people are so touchy these days). It got me thinking about the mainstreamification of some of the tropes of Alt. Tattoos have become synonymous with AltPorn, since they are the most immediately identifiable attribute on a nude performer, to a general audience eye anyway. It’s gotten to be a lot like porn from the 70’s where every blonde was “Swedish.” On the one hand great ink can be a beautiful and intriguing thing, But I’ve also heard perfectly amazing looking goth girls say they don’t think any of our A-List sites would accept them because they don’t have enough (or any) tattoos, even though a lot of the sites have no ink requirements. A few do, but certainly not all of them.

My fear is that if all of Alt gets boiled down to ‘has tattoos’ we will lose sight of the real foundation of the genre. It’s supposed to be about being independent (for reals) and taking an artistic creative approach to subculture (or counterculture if you ask BlueBlood) and not limiting yourself to becoming a mockery of what you had set out to create. This is something all culturally based art struggles with, but for the sake of not filibustering, lots of people are covered in ink these days, but not all of them embody what Alt set out to be about. That said, there are some really hot college girls and maybe the pioneers of AltPorn have all made it more likely that we will see the kinds of guys and girls we really like performing on an even wider range of sites.

With school being so busy this time of year, all of us have been pretty preoccupied over here with family and holidays, I’ve slipped a little on providing the December QuantCast results from our AltPorn A-List Traffic and Site Popularity Study, but without further ado here it is.

Although SuicideGirls traffic continues a downward trend, they have risen one spot in the rankings to regain second place, behind BlueBlood’s GothicSluts, edging out BlueBlood’s punky BarelyEvil. NaughtyFlipside managed to pick up a few spots, even though they have not updated in what seems like forever. We, AltPorn.net, have fallen a couple spots, probably due to more sporadic updates around the holidays and finals. DarkPlay seems to have gotten an interesting boost, while DeviantNation and NoFauxxx seem to be trending down this month.

* Rank: Works like Alexa, lower is better.
** EMV: Estimated Monthly Visitors

I never get tired of visually exploring this girls beautiful body. With every twist and turn, there are surprize little details and artful modifications. It makes me happy that Blue Blood’s BarelyEvil keeps delivering another much needed fix of ultra hot punk rock Rachel Face. This set was done in a suitably fun punk dive bar location too. One of her usual haunts for sure, with an amusingly vandalized moose head, dirty couch, bowling trophies, and lots of Pabst promo. Yep, it must be Portland. I’m not ashamed to say I just want to grab the handles of those .45s and shoot!

When you are browsing your favorite AltPorn sites, what size images to you enjoy most? For vertical or portrait images, lately we’ve seen sites running all sorts of different sizes, 1000px, 900px, 800px, 640px high, and for horizontal or landscape we’ve been seeing 1200px, 1000px, 900px, 640px wide. Take a look at your favorite site, with what you feel are the most enjoyable to look at and let us know the picture dimensions you like best on your screen, both for vertical and horizontal shots.

We managed to miss the late November Compete.com edition of our AltPorn A-List Traffic and Popularity Study, due in part to Thanksgiving, but some of the feedback we’ve been getting would indicate a desire to measure and publish the various third party traffic and popularity statistics on the same days. We’ve given it some thought and we’ll give it a try. So, along with today’s Alexa chart, you also get the Compete.com chart, both measured on December first, 2007. If this is popular, we may move the QuantCast measures and charts to the first of every month for the coming year 2008 as well.

The December Compete numbers are a little more interesting than the Alexa measures, or at least there is a little more positional movement. BlueBlood’s GothicSluts, as well as their BarelyEvil sites have moved up significantly in estimated monthly visitors taking spots two and three respectively, knocking CrazyBabe down to position four this month. We (AltPorn.net) have actually grown in visitors this month, up 55.4% over last month (six weeks really) and up an impressive 383.4% for the year. BrokenDolls is also bumping up significantly, while InkyGirls have fallen off a number of spots. Compete.com still doesn’t have measures for the newcomer sites PunkGrl and LazerBunny, which I feel they should have by now, so no measures for them yet.

Continuing in our Alexa edition of the AltPorn A-List Traffic and Popularity Study, the December numbers are fairly similar to the November numbers. DeviantNation and BlueBlood’s GothicSluts have knocked the waning former number two site NaughtyFlipside out of it’s position and taken the number two and three spots again. GodsGirls seems to have moved up over BlueBlood’s RubberDollies, and a handfull of the bottom rung sites have moved up as FatalBeauty closed shop from the number seventeen slot.