Jan 14 — Hitwise – Plentyoffish moves up one spot to displace singlesnet. Manhunt.net jumps in at 10th spot. First time I've heard of them but it looks like they've been around for a while according to Alexa's 2 year graph. MSN Match and PerfectMatch move down three spots to 13th and 15th spots respectively. Hotornot climbs one spot to #12.
Nielsen Netratings – myYearbook moves up two spots to 5th place and Mate1 bumps down two spots to 7th. Tagworld, Tickle's Lovehappens and Crush Calculator spring onto the scene at 8th, 10th and 14th spots respectively and LoveAccess moves up four spots to take the 11th spot. Perfectmatch moves down one spot to #12 and eCrush gets bumped from 9th to 15th spot.
Alexa – Singlesnet moves up to 6th spot bumping Date.com to #7…and that's it. Only one change.
Manhunt.net began 5 years ago as a gay personals site in the Boston area and has grown nationwide and internationally since then. We recently began subscribing to Hitwise.com for data, which is probably when they first noticed our existence! Manhunt.net is also listed by Hitwise as the #1 gay personals site (what happened to Gay.com? They’re still bigger!).
I’m looking forward to meeting others in the online personals industry at the iDate2006 Online Personals convention in Miami Beach February 2-3.
See you there Jonathan. Thanks for your contributions to the OPW blog.
Mark Brooks
Editor
OnlinePersonalsWatch.com
manhunt like mate1 was in the adult category but they moved it over.
I think you should include the following in your ranking system as it is the most accurate and powerful way to measure world wide rankings. The only downside is gay.com and yahoo personals can’t really be measured. But who cares.. Lavalife would make the top 10…
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
Here are the top 10 in hitwise, with big number being the number of searches done per month accross the yahoo and MSN network for sitename.com. ie you can measure the effectiveness of a brand by seeing how many times people searched for it. Singlesnet & Match.com will be way overstated because of the heavy promotion on both yahoo and MSN.
1 Yahoo Personals
2 Match.com 1,263,083
3 eHarmony 162,297
4 Gay
5 TRUE 86,488
6 American Singles 108,759
7 Plentyoffish 145,811
8 Singlesnet 81,100
9 Mate1 98,128
10 Manhunt.net 166,525
11 Blackpeoplemeet 98,246
12 HotorNot 46,334
13 MSN Match
14 Cupid 116,189
15 Perfect Match 37,520