The Review Editor's Summary Cited as a serious dating site for professionals, is essentially eHarmony for a younger generation minus the stereotype. First popular in the UK but now spreading and competing with popular sites like Zoosk, the site gains approximately 25,000 new members in the US every week and cites an impressive success rate of singles finding love through the service every 8 minutes. Although there is an app, EliteSingles is more of a full-blown, data-driven, and extremely targeted that takes matching personalities seriously. So seriously in fact, that the sign-up process consists of a roughly 45-minute long personality questionnaire, which asks well over 100 multiple choice, scaling answer, and open-ended questions. Luckily, after completely the questionnaire, the site auto-completes most profile and filter settings for the user and only takes a few minutes to begin delivering quality, data-based matches. The app is a convenient alternative for using the desktop site long-term, boasting all the main features from the site for people, or, more precisely, what we assume are busy professionals, on the go. Users can easily update their profiles and view and communicate with matches directly from the app. EliteSingles profiles are , but they can still be skimmed, making it easy to use the dating site from a desktop or mobile phone. The profiles fill up with a veritable hoard of information from the initial questionnaire, and users can flesh out this info by filling in additional fields or adding more images once they're logged in. Users are encouraged to do this -- EliteSingles has stated that a well-filled profile increases the chances of receiving messages by a factor of eight. When you check out your matches' profiles, the similarities between your profile and theirs are highlighted and marked with a heart to help users instantly identify what they have in common, as well as suggest topics that might inspire a conversation. Matches are assigned based on data, derived from the personality profile, which is set up after the initial questionnaire. Members get to check out a limited number of matches each day -- roughly 7 to 10 -- with the option to browse through 20 bonus matches through a swiping system that shows you people you might not be 100% compatible with. Anytime you show any interest in one of your matches, the site will prompt you to send them a message, to help get users talking. This is not a site to look for a one night stand, or find a quick date to throw in-between your upcoming two Tinder dates. Elite Singles is a site is for singles and most everything about the site and app is meticulously designed to lead to relationships. With that in mind the app holds a 1. In the Google Play store, the app holds a 2. The desktop website however attracts approximately 730,000 visits per month with the average visit lasting 7:28 minutes and average of 11. The desktop site also ranks 34,912 globally, 7,844 in the United States, and 162 in the relationships and dating category. Overall the online dating site and app has some promising matching capabilities and is surely a growing rival to the ever-famous data-driven matching site, eHarmony. The free membership option is a valid for anyone looking to identify deeper personality traits about themselves and who they might connect with best, and also gives users a chance to test drive with the platform before paying, but offers little functionality after that. IN-DEPTH Sign-Up Process The on a desktop is quite different from the signup process on the app. While the app only requires you enter an email address and create a password, the desktop version requires more details to better match you. Nothing would load and the app would give an error message. When first signing up through the desktop version and then logging on to the app, the app started to sync to the desktop profile and worked normally. When signing up on the desktop site, you select your gender male or female and what gender you are looking to match with again male or female and then enter an email address and create a password. From there you go through a personality questionnaire that claims to analyze 29 unique character traits. Completing this questionnaire takes 30 to 45 minutes, depending on the speed and complexity of the answers. These questions surround appearance traits such as Healthy, Trendy, and Sexy. You end the questionnaire by answering questions about children, drinking and smoking habits, and income. Finally you upload a photo and as your partner suggestions are being calculated, you are asked to answer 7 open-ended questions about yourself. The questionnaire is lengthy and time consuming but once it is completed, most areas you would normally have to manually fill out are completed as well, such as your search criteria age and height, location and distance, children, education and income, smoking and drinking habits, ethnicity and religion as well as the majority of your profile fields. At this point you can login though the app and begin to use the app version. You can enhance your profile, and your chances at finding a match by completing other sections of your profile from desktop or app. From the app or desktop, you may answer additional open-ended questions such as music you like, sports you like, and your ideal day, as well as complete a short bio about yourself. Th
