But almost all of them were suspiciously short, spammy, or just plain rude.Zoosk took it one step further — you’ll pay a monthly subscription for low-quality matches.Matchmaker and online dating expert Carmelia Ray points out that “as a user, you want to have the most selection and options.When you’re putting in your search criteria, and it’s coming back ‘no matches found,’ that’s a bummer.” To find the most popular options, we turned to Alexa, a web-traffic analytics company.No other dating site works as hard to deliver you the exact right partners, and that means results: In our testing, we found the highest percentage of good matches with Ok Cupid, and the second-highest percentage of high-quality messages.To unlock features like incognito mode, read receipts, and a larger inbox, you can upgrade to a paid plan for per month, but we think the free version is more than enough to get started.We tested any with at least a million active users in the US.It’s impossible to know exactly how many users are active on a given site or app (especially because mobile users aren’t reflected in Alexa data), but we’re definitely in the ballpark.

If they don’t, the match will disappear after 24 hours, although you can upgrade to a paid account to keep matches around longer.

While we can’t recommend them, we hope we can save you the trouble of experiencing them yourself.

Take it from us, e Harmony was just a worse version of

It organizes in-person events like speed dating, happy hours, and game nights for its members to help accelerate the search for “the one,” and it works — studies have shown it’s one of the top two sites to produce marriages.

(Match.com’s user base is slightly older, too, which may indicate more people who are ready to settle down.) However, Match lacks the robust matching algorithm of Ok Cupid — it came in fourth place for good matches in our testing — and isn’t as streamlined as Tinder or Bumble. We also tested three other sites: e Harmony, Plenty of Fish, and Zoosk.