by David Evans | Dating Research
Stats for June 2004, according to Hitwise. Stale, but historical perspective is always useful. I’m trying to get Hitwise and Comscore to provide monthly stats to better gauge movement within the top 10 sites. Not as easy as you would think, several top 10 sites...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Every since the checkbox and radio button were invented, websites have polled visitors about their experiences and desires. Dating site surveys range from psychologically-revealing (if you were an animal, what would it be?) to the mundane (boxers or briefs?). Date and...
by David Evans | Dating Research
From Vladimir Savchenko @ compatti.com: After analyzing the compatibility results of 156,334 unique pairs from over 30,000 Compatti.com users using astrology we found very profound symmetricity in distribution of the compatibility scores. It was hard to ignore...
by David Evans | Dating Research
In its first report of pan-European Internet behaviour, independent measurement firm comScore Media Metrix ranked Match.com as the leading online dating site in Europe. According to comScore data, Match.com sites drew nearly four million visitors in October, more than...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Andrew Draper has undertaken an interesting piece of work, analyzing the network of the most popular dating sites. Some of the numbers are off, notably Matchmaker supposed 12 million members, however I applaud his attempt at this type of analysis. Andrew says:...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Partial October visitor stats from Reuters press release on the Friendster/eHarmony deal: Yahoo Personals: 6.2 million unique visitors Match.com: 5.5 million eHarmony: 3.2 million Friendster: 945,000