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It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a dating site since I haven’t seen very many big, new sites. A new addition to the online dating world has recently come about, and that’s Spark.com. Spark is the combination of Americansingles.com and Date.ca. Spark’s web traffic looks like it just started taking off on December 14th. As usual I went ahead and created a profile and played around a bit. Here is what I found.

Spark.com is definitely based on a matchmaking process. While creating your profile you’re asked to take a personality survey which is beginning to be a requirement for the majority of online dating websites. Spark has a different line of questioning than anything I’ve seen. They ask you to answer the questions as you were when you were a child. For instance, “How did you deal with embarrassing situations?” I’m sure there’s some sort of psychological process behind this method. Anyway, at the end of the survey you get a “Personality Color” which is what will be used to find your matches. Mine was Yellow.

After my profile was made I started looking around at my matches. I had 15 to start. I looked at several and their profiles were relatively short and basic. The site seems easy to navigate and communicate with matches through chat room, email, flirting, and e-cards. However, to really be able to communicate, you’ll need to sign-up for a paid membership. You have several payment options including month-to-month and longer term options. Seeing as this site is relatively new, I’d be reluctant to pre-may for several months without testing is out first. Below are the current payment options.

Something else I’d point out is that there are only roughly 1,200 people online on a Sunday.  I’d expect this to pretty much be peak dating time and that’s a very low number.  With that  being said, lets go ahead and look at Spark.com’s traffic rankings from Alexa.

Unites States makes up for 49.9% of Spark.com’s traffic.

Popularity: 3% [?]