I've gotten two emails recently from JRL Publications claiming they are the "Number One Source For Info And Entertainment On The Gay Adult Film Industry". JRL's main business has been compiling surveys of DVD sales from brick-and-mortar stores that get sent to gay porn studios. They just recently added a web presence.
JRL published this list of gay adult industry sites and how they rank according to Alexa. Alexa ranks the popularity of websites starting from Yahoo at number "1", followed by Google (#3 most popular website), AOL, MSN, eBay, ect. Out of the gazillions of websites on the Internet, being ranked in the 100,000's is not bad, but JRL should do a little more research before making claims of being Number One.
Lavender Lounge, home of Lavender Lounge Blog, is to date ranking at around 57,000th in Alexa, which makes it FAR more popular than JRL's website. Granted, Alexa compiles these stats from the number of surfers who have installed the Alexa toolbar to their browser, and I've never met anyone who actually HAS an Alexa toolbar, but the industry regards it as at least a good estimate of site rankings.
I'm glad I got to see how Lavender Lounge stacks up against other sites in the adult industry. Although it makes me wonder why I kiss people's ass to get my sites listed on sites that rank LOWER than mine. Shouldn't they be kissing MY ass to get listed on MY site?
To check the ranking of Lavender Lounge, I placed an Alexa Traffic Rank button on my affiliate page that updates itself every time you refresh the page. To check the ranking of any website, or add a Traffice Rank button to your site, here is the link to Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup
Internet Website Traffic Rank:
Weekending Sunday May 15th, 2005
( 1) JRLGay.Wizaweb.com................................ ................100,849
( 2) Mannet.com........................................ ........................124,421
( 3) C*socket.com...................................... ...................131,133
( 4) Jasoncurious.com.................................. ......................157,444
( 5) GayVN.com (AVN)............................................. .........477,724
( 6) Vidioview.com..................................... ........................514,866
( 7) WillClarkUSA.com.................................. ....................557,951
( 8) XFactor.com....................................... .........................564,167
( 9) Pornconfidential.com.............................. ....................565,543
( 10) GayChicagoMagazine.com(Grabby Awards)...............605,216
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