OFFICIAL
77.5
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
16.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
57.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
13.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.0 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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| Editor: Duke |
Initial Review: 12-12-07 |
| Follow-Up Review(s): 09-22-08 |
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1. Nice amout of pictures & videos.
2. Regular webcam shows & archives.
3. Content categorizatoin breakdown.
1. Design could use a little work.
2. Video/content quality varies.
3. Some member's area upsells.
"A balanced amount of pics & vids plus Mariah does a nice job with webcam content too." |
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This is the official site of pornstar Mariah. She has a appeared in hundreds of movies and for those that are curious her ethnic background is Sicilian. As far as the structure of her site goes it has more of an amateur girl feel to it more than that of a pornstar. The big part of that is the webcam content which are front and center in the member's area. Along with the cams she has a mix of picture, videos, and message board content.
The Goods:
- Mix of Hardcore, Solo & Girl/Girl. Mariah does it all including boy/girl banging and BJs, girl/girl strapons, interracial, solo/glamour, and some foot fetish action. The site offers about an equal amount of picture galleries and videos which is good to see.
- Webcam Shows w/ On-Site Archives. There are two main components to Mariah's cam content. The member's area has her upcoming member only and Camz.com shows posted right at the top of the page. The second part are the archives. It's always a big plus when a solo girl goes to the effort of compiling past shows. Mariah has a large number of shows available for download which adds a nice content piece to her collection.
- Categorized Pic & Vid Sections. This is the one design/navigation thing that I like about the layout. The picture galleries and videos have separate sections with each having half a dozen sub-categories. There are also options to bring up the most viewed, top rated, and latest uploads.
The Bads:
- Average Looking Design. Aside from the pic and vid categories the design is fairly weak. The main issue I have is the individual gallery and video sub-category pages are on a completely different design than the member main page. There are also all sorts of clutter on the member main page which could be cleaned up.
- Vid Viewing Could Be Better. Generally speaking the video links initially start an in-browser stream and from there it's possible to download and save the file to your computer. The vid quality varies depending on the age of the movie with newer additions having high and low quality available.
- Too Many Links & Upsells. This the member main page clutter that I spoke about. There is just a ton of links to outside sites under headers like Friends, Recommended, and Mariah's appearances on other sites. This is just too many upsells for me.
Conclusion:
One area not covered yet is updates. Mariah has an update log going back months. There isn't really a fixed schedule but checking the list she seems to add a new item every 4 days or so. Overall Mariah has a respectable collection of pictures and videos with her main selling points being that she does a lot of hardcore and offers a nice amount of webcam content with regular shows and archives.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 09-22-08 |
Taking a look around Mariah XXX's site I can see the fundamentals have held steady and the Pros/Cons from my initial review still apply. Updates continue to be posted throughout the different sections and the content totals now are into the hundreds on both the photo gallery and video sides. Actually the number of videos is about double that of the photo galleries which is an excellent ratio for an individual girl site. I'm still impressed by the variety of content sections with glamour, boy/girl, girl/girl, candid, and webcam content available. While there is still room for a sharper design the categorization is still helpful since she breaks down the content into common sense sections. All told Mariah has a nice sized solo girl site where the positives outweigh the negatives.
Score increased from 75.0 to 77.5.
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