Alexa isn't the end all, be all...Sites aren't dying.

I have 4 paysites in the top 5000 and alexa is very wrong. Compete is pretty much accurate on all sites I have checked. Alexa still ranks old school sites higher despite the fact they dont get nearly as much traffic. The guys who say Alexa is right and Compete is wrong are dont have sites to gauge by. Period.

What really surprises me here is that no one has mentioned video quality.

Potentials signups will watch videos at one of these tube sites and either belt off to the pixelated videos or want for something more. Let's face it the video quality on these tube sites isn't all that great, especially when everything is advertised as HD this and HD that these days.

Also for the everyday joe, they're not going to know how to download an offline copy of the video.

Tube sites might be the new tgp/mgp, but I don't think the likes of mgp and tgp are dead. People still want quality even(i'd go as far as saying *especially*) in their porn, alot of people tend to overlook this when yabbering on about tube sites.

Of course Alexa rankings are dropping for Adult Sites.. Less American/Canadian/UK/AU use Alexa than ever. Alexa's plugin is used heavy in the Asian markets and Webmasters.

The counter market is getting hit because of all the no-script / script block tools that come with virus protection packages, plugins, ect these days. No 3rd party counter / javascript works on my machine. This is getting stronger has FF takes more ground too.

For every 1 person with enough bandwidth to continually watch tube movies you have 10 that don't have enough bandwidth to wait for one to buffer. Picture TGP's are still popular, MPG's didn't replace them, and Tubes aren't going to replace them either.

You have a higher chance of the recession killing broadband connections than Tubes being any reason why traffic/sales have dropped.

I've been mentioning it in all my posts