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An analysis and review of the Al4a
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Our Overall Rating:
Our Summary: Al4a is a simple, direct and effective tgp.
Our web-spider found that it was updated with fresh listings each day. Over 7 days, the spider downloaded 596.8 MB of pictures and 807.8 MB of movies.
Al4a is text based and we liked how the hyperlinks go directly to the listed pages. The text descriptions were fairly short, really only giving the category of pictures and the name of the person who submitted the gallery.
One spoiler for al4a.com was the lack of content labeling such as a PICS label.
Overall, al4a gets a high mark for being a surfer friendly site with regular large updates.
Downloaded from http://www.al4a.com/links.html from 10th-Jan to 17th-Jan
 |  One of the top 5 in the popularity stakes. Overture reports a massive 304,974 searches per month for its domain name | |
 |  al4a loads fairly quickly, requiring 14 requests to the server ... around 10 of those are banners. The links start around 2 scroll pages down. | |
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 |   www.al4a.com has 2-3 word descriptions of the pages it lists organized in a list sorted by date. Movie pages are clearly identified. It gets a B because the descriptions are short. | |
 |  We gave the top mark of A+ for its direct linking and leaving the status bar area alone. Click on a hyperlink in al4a.com and you know exactly where you are going. | |
 | No skimming and no blindlinks gets al4a an A+ | |
 | Our spider found around 100 fresh galleries on al4a.com each day. On average the spider found 74.6 MB of pictures and 101 MB of movies each day. This puts al4a in the top 20% for both fresh pictures and movies |
Each block below summarizes what our spider found each time it downloaded al4a. Only updated listings were spidered each day, so the numbers represent the amount of new pictures and movies appearing each day.
For the full list click here. Each line is the result of spidering each fresh listing on the 17th-Jan-2005
This lists the percentage of content found on AL4A over a period of a week, that was also found from crawling other TGPs. For example 16.1% of all urls (where pictures and movies were found) were also found at the "new shemp" TGP.
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===Out GET /links.html HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: Host: www.al4a.com User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ===In HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server:Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.0 Last-Modified:Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:00:14 GMT Content-Length:59114 Content-Type:text/html Accept-Ranges:bytes Connection:close Date:Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:05:47 GMT ETag:"1d6aa8-e6ea-41eb000e"
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