Mad Thumbs

Madthumbs

Our Overall Rating: C+

Our Summary: Mad thumbs is a thumbnail based TGP. Each gallery it lists is represented by a single small thumbnail so you can choose which galleries to look at by seeing a sample.

Its updates were average for a thumb TGP. Over a week the crawler downloaded 116.5MB of pictures and 401.8MB of movies. Being suited to higher connection speeds, it appears to give more weight to movies than pictures.

Our major problem with MadThumbs is its use of redirection and inevitable skimming (taking the surfer to a page they were not expecting). As you can see in the galleries section, madthumbs skimmed every 6th and 7th click.

We were pleased to see a PICS-label indicating that blocking software should stop the page being displayed to minors.

Overall this is a decent thumbnail tgp except for its redirection and skimming.

URL: http://www.madthumbs.com/ Start Date: 20050110 End Date: 20050117

Madthumbs Summary

	B+	According to Alexa, madthumbs is very popular with an overall rank of #907. It also gets 105,529 searches per month.
	A	A thumb tgp, so madthumbs takes a solid number of http requests to get, however it is mostly clean with not too many banners.
	A+	Includes a valid (according to the ICRA validator) pics label ... A+
	A	Madthumbs.com uses 88*88 thumbnails organized into a block of 36 new thumbs each day. Movies are indicated in the thumbnails
	F	This uses a redirection linking style. All the urls are to the tgp and contain the actual url embedded in a query parameter. This style of linking gets an automatic fail due to its high potential to trick the surfer
	D	Madthumbs appears to skim every 6th and 7th click off to another tgp. We have seen worse skimming so give madthumbs a D
	A	Madthumbs average daily updates of 14MB pictures is lower than average, but the average daily updates of 50.2MB is above average. In total, our crawler found 401.8MB of movies at madthumbs over a week

Madthumbs Updates

Madthumbs Galleries

Click here for all results These results are from the 17th-January. Our crawler followed all new listing for that day. Gallery pages (pages that contained thumbs) were crawled for all their pictures and movies. Click on each line to see an expanded version

Madthumbs Request

===Out
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: 
Host: www.madthumbs.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

===In
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server:Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
Content-Type:text/html
Connection:close
Date:Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:57:32 GMT

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• good overall cleaner than the rest [Comment abbrieviated] (Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:24)