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Pete Zaface
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Posted - Nov 19 2014 : 10:19AM
Aside from sales and download figures, which a) generally aren't available, b) are subject to manipulation and c) would be hard to combine across different producers and sites, there aren't many ways to measure porn star popularity, at least in terms of "most popular."
When I stumbled across a site that I can't name, it occurred to me that it might be interesting to sort the threads devoted to each porn star based on number of views, and see what that yielded. The results are below. Personally, only five, maybe six, would qualify for consideration in my all-time top 50 list (Jenna, Lexi, Kayden, Angel, Julia Ann, Tera). Anyway, FWIW:
Tori Black 16,892,355
Lisa Ann 15,908,619
Gianna Michaels 15,054,528
Jenna Haze 14,602,284
Lexi Belle 13,206,506
Jayden James 12,886,088
Aletta Ocean 12,433,904
Shyla Stylez 12,383,185
Phoenix Marie 11,716,634
Sasha Grey 11,434,401
Kayden Kross 11,155,110
Asa Akira 11,140,371
Alexis Texas 11,130,975
Angel Dark 11,067,069
Julia Ann 11,064,973
Eva Angelina 10,983,459
Silvia Saint 10,803,107
Kagney Linn Karter 10,372,747
Tera Patrick 9,324,603
Nikki Benz 8,856,385
phoenix_marie1
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6/08
Posted - Nov 23 2014 : 7:57PM
That's pretty awesome... Share info source?
Pete Zaface
Senior Member

3064 Posts
8/03
Posted - Nov 23 2014 : 8:25PM
Site guidelines prohibit me from doing so. I wouldn't want to steer anyone to a site that would deprive people here (and others) of revenue, anyway.
whatsatelephonebill
Senior Member

2935 Posts
10/11
Posted - Nov 23 2014 : 9:10PM
Largest bias would be by years active (the longer you're active, the more views you can rack up). Without actually checking, there could also be a bias based on who posts here (threads where the performer posts in it are more active/get more views than ones where the performer doesn't). Even with all that, it's a nice data point. You want some real fun, divide views by number of months since the thread was created, which would tell you who averaged the most traffic as opposed to who has been around the longest.
Captain Jack All-Star Supporter
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5113 Posts
12/09
Posted - Nov 23 2014 : 9:45PM
To me, without any context or knowing how to verify the numbers, it's just numbers on a page.
It doesn't mean anything.
 
roynie
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1447 Posts
9/10
Posted - Nov 24 2014 : 4:03AM
It took a lot of searching but I think I've found it. Page views for individual stars pages on a site that shouldn't be linked for reasons described in Petes last post. It has some use in showing popularity but also some problems. It disregards both length since someone started performing and peaks/falls in interest over time. Since Pete made his list this is the increase in thousands
Tori Black +13
Lisa Ann +23
Gianna Michaels +17
Jenna Haze +10
Lexi Belle +17
Jayden James +13
Aletta Ocean +14
Shyla Stylez +8
Phoenix Marie +16
Sasha Grey +8
Kayden Kross +8
Asa Akira +15
Alexis Texas +14
Angel Dark +7
Julia Ann +22 (moved ahead of Angel Dark in total page views)
Eva Angelina +8
Silvia Saint +9
Kagney Linn Karter +17
Tera Patrick +8
Nikki Benz +11
For a snapshot of current popularity the freeones rank is easier to use and rely on a legit site. http://www.freeones.com/baberank/. The filter can be changed from one day to a week, a month, three months or a year and depends on page clicks and unique visitors. Something as basic as a scene release can greatly affect the short periods. Its main use is a month or longer.
Since twitters popularity is relatively new I used to think that followers was a good indication of popularity in the last few years. I don't trust it anymore: I've seen too many that had to start over when twitter police decided to delete their account and it is easy and cheap to buy followers. I recently saw a star get many thousand new followers on a single day and at some points literally 4-5 per second. At a round number the unusual increase stopped instantly and only a more natural increase rate followed. You could probably hire someone to do the same for freeones rank but it would be more expensive to do for a long period.
A problem with all these lists is that they don't necessarily say anything about the buyers. It's probably the best we can get because I can't imagine a large porn company releasing their sales data
Edited by - roynie on 11/24/2014 4:51:57 AM
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Posted - Nov 24 2014 : 8:17AM
Our top stars list - based purely on searches in our movie database. On every site the list is affected by search engine listings/rankings for certain movies, performers, directors. And here also affected by which performers participate.
JC_Denton
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Posted - Nov 24 2014 : 8:19PM
Even if quantitative measurements such as this one has their fair share of inherent flaws, as people before me have pointed out, I still find it interesting that certain chicks in this top 20 list overlap with the ones on the aforementioned Freeones ranking. I would like to note though that these rankings only go back one year according to the search filter.
Anyways, the chicks who overlap in the top 20 are:
1) Gianna Michaels
2) Jayden Jaymes
3) Lisa Ann
6) Kagney Linn Karter
8) Kayden Kross
11) Phoenix Marie
14) Aletta Ocean
17) Julia Ann
18) Nikki Benz
20) Tori Black
Note: Ranks are Freeones based.
Side note: As implied above I don't think it will do anyone any good to put too much weight to these kinda statistics, but does anyone else find it unexpected to NOT find AJ Applegate in either of these lists?
Captain Jack All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Nov 24 2014 : 9:18PM
Not at all.
AJ is not the most popular star working today (although popular) and if you look at the lists, with rare exceptions, they've been in it for awhile or have some other outside influences that will draw people to them.
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