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Content
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| Quality : |
16.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
58.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
4.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
15.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 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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1. Lots of hardcore!
2. Good looking site.
3. Lots of camshows each week.
1. Picture and video quality is sub-par.
2. A few navigational quirks at times.
"A really good amateur site, with great content and interaction." |
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Man, I never realized just how many amateurs there were out there. Today we have yet another individual's site, brought to you by Racquel of RacquelsWorld.com She's on the older end of the amateur spectrum (right about 40 years old), but looks good nonetheless. Apparently she has gotten extra horny with age, which is a bonus for us!
The site has a very simple, but clean look to it. It already feels better than a lot of other amateur's sites, which is always a good start. The member's area and free tour look much the same, so you can get a good idea of what to expect by browsing around. The only thing that got slightly annoying was the extensive use of javascript. It adds some cool, flashy stuff to the site, but also got in the way a little. The first example is that bouncing menu thing in the tour that kinda covered up the pics I was looking at! There's even a big red warning on her member's homepage about another problem I found with this, more on that later...
Once inside, you'll see that Racquel is pretty actively involved with the site. There's a lot of references to her husband, TJ, as well. I'd almost call this a couples site instead of an individual, just because he's all over the place! Anyhow, her update schedule is listed right on the homepage, and she brings out something new a couple times each week.
Checking out her photo galleries, I was again annoyed by the menus. They look really cool I guess, but you have to make sure the whole damn page loads before you click anything, or none of the links will work. There's a lot of loading going on in the background (even on our fast net connection), so people on dialup will have to wait a long time before they can click anything. I think they load all the thumbnails from the whole gallery (even those on different pages) right away. This makes clicking through the galleries easy, but takes way too long to load.
My next complaint comes with the picture sizes. Well wait, before I get there, their thumbnails look to have a set width to them, probably to try to keep the page looking uniform. Unfortunately, when both horizontal and vertical pictures have the same width, that makes them two very different sizes (100x144, and 100x66) which looks real funny to me. Anyhow, the larger pictures are only 640x420 or 480x732 (again depending on the orientation of the photo). They look good overall otherwise, they have good lighting and coloring, but that picture size is a bit below the amateur standard of 800x600, which is still almost too small for my liking! The other weird thing we noticed was once the action starts (i.e. the second page), all the pics got horizontal and looked a little different than the first page. Our best guess was that they take a few pics beforehand, and then turn the video camera on and grab screen caps from that for the rest of the gallery.
The videos can be found on the gallery pages, or you can browse all the videos by themselves. The videos are all offered in MPG format, and are usually in clips a few minutes long. Unfortunately, the quality I saw in the photos earlier was not present in the videos. The video is at 320x240, and the frame rate seems to be pretty good, but the picture quality here is just very jagged and grainy (even looking at the words "RacquelsWorld.com" in the beginning you'll see this). The good news is that there's a lot of hardcore action here well. They're watchable, but just barely.
She does cam shows, as expected nowadays I guess, and her schedule this week brought us two hour-long webcam shows, and a member's only chat one night. She also has a featured friends section, which offers up promo galleries from other amateurs, and also a vintage Racquel section with some older photos of theirs.
$20 is the price point most amateurs put themselves at, and Racquel is no exception. I got a bit excited seeing the nice design, and good history of content available, but unfortunately got let down with the quality of the content. That's about the only thing lacking here, so if she can bump her picture size up, and offer some better quality videos, she'd have a great site to look at. I'd also like to see her photo gallery filled with actual photos, rather than screen caps for the most part. There's lots to like, and lots to dislike here, but most important is probably the model herself (as always) - so make sure she gets you hot and bothered first, and feel secure knowing her site is pretty decent.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 10-05-04 |
Well, well, what do we have here? Better/bigger content! The site basically looks the same, but I noticed the new photos right away. They are now in the 1000x700 range, which is a huge improvement since we were here last time. Unfortunately she still has a majority of her photo galleries as screen caps, but at least the photos she does have are looking a lot better.
On the flip side, the MPGs look pretty similar to they way they did before, but they've added two more options for watching the videos (Quicktime, and Windwos Media Video). The WMVs come in at 320x240, 500kbps and look a lot cleaner than their counterparts for some reason. Another great change!
With the quality getting bumped up, this is one of our best scoring amateur sites listed. Definitely worth a look, especially if you're into the whole horny housewife thing.
Score increased from 79.9 to 81.7.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 02-10-06 |
Racquel seems to be rolling along here, business as usual as they say. The site has grown a bit, but other than that there isn't much new to report. The content changes we saw last time are still in place, and even more so as it includes all the new content since then as well. The price is still good, and the interaction is decent as well. I may have to adjust a few scores down due to differences in how I score sites now, but not because of anything wrong here. I still think it's a solid join for the hardcore, amateur fans.
Score decreased from 81.7 to 80.5.
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