In the online dating world, men are severely outnumbered by females, giving them a better shot of finding a love connection. Women, on the otherhand, are experiencing a shortage of men and often times have a more difficult time. This information was gathered by the datafirm Hitwise, which tracked the type of traffic online dating websites received.

Other interesting information that the results revealed where that dating websites with longer questionairres were more likely to have a significantly higher number of women than men. The most popular dating sites amongst men involved few questions, and more of a focus on pictures. Men tend to be more visually oriented, so I guess this can’t be too surprising. Another odd thing that was found was that the higher the price it cost to join or utilize the site’s services, the more women there would be. Men, it seems, aren’t willing to shell out a whole lot of money to find that special someone.

Bill Tancer, Hitwise’s general manager of global research, said:

“The more money and time involved in signing up to a dating site, the more the site would skew female. And, the more free pictures were available the more the site would skew male. I think what the data shows us … is that women use online dating as an actual service for what it was intended…. Some male users are using dating sites more just to look at pictures of women.”

That seems to be a pretty good summary, Mr. Tancer. Why are we not surprised?

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