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.
That’s definetly interesting to see. One site that I can think of that was left out was razordolls. Also what does “PR” stand for?
Don’t the visitors have to have an alexa tool bar installed in order for alexa to track the statistics? I’m sure the numbers would be much different if every single person who has one visted the sites had the toolbar installed. Or am I mistaken?
That’s a good suggestion Leila. Not sure how that site slipped out. They currently have an Alexa ranking of 306,727, so that would put them between FatalBeauty and BellaVendetta on the chart.
PR is page rank according to Google. They have a 1 to 10 system, and higher is better. So, if the chart were sorted by Google, SG would have the best with a 7, followed by BlueBlood, BurningAngel, SuperCult, EroticBPM, SpicepPlay, NoFouxxx, all the way down to CityKitty.
Alexa data is of some use, but should be taken with a grain of salt. The data is only as acurrate as the sample taken, and Alexa’s sample only includes users who have installed software that reports visits to Alexa, like the Alexa Toolbar. Check out some of the disclaimers offered at http://www.alexa.com/site/help/traffic_learn_more . But, there really isn’t anything better than Alexa, so it’s what we go with.
It should also be noted that Google PageRank (PR) is *not* a popularity ranking, but rather the “importance” that the Google search engine assigns the page. Generally pages that have a high PR will show up higher in search results, and pages that are linked from a high-PR site will in turn receive higher PR numbers.
It definately is a good site to check out statistics, though not 100% accurate, it still gives an idea. I installed the toolbar on internut exploder which I rarely use, but wanted to give it a go, but every time I download it, my hubby ends up removing it. Damn him, damn him to hell. Oh well, I’ve loved alexa for quite a while, I like to check up on the sites, and the current rankings/ stats.
Is this something that will be updated often, it would be nice to see the changes every so often.