How the Spot Score works
PORNSPOTTED is built for recognition speed. The Spot Score blends the usual quality signals with a heavy popularity component — because in a visual directory, the sites people actually use belong at the top. Popularity carries 16% of the score, more than on any of our sister rankings, alongside library, quality and player metrics.
Collections such as “No signup” or “Quiet players” are pure metric filters — a site enters them automatically the week its crawl data qualifies. All 1,329 sites are refreshed weekly.
The exact weights
| Metric | Weight |
|---|---|
| Library depth | 14% |
| Freshness | 10% |
| Video quality | 16% |
| Player & UX | 10% |
| Mobile experience | 10% |
| Trust & safety | 10% |
| Popularity | 16% |
| Low ad pressure | 6% |
| Free access | 8% |
Ad pressure is inverted before weighting — a site with zero interruptive ads gets 100 points, each level of ad aggression removes 25. “Visit” buttons go through our /go/ redirect and carry rel="sponsored nofollow"; affiliate relationships never touch the scoring pipeline.