R18.com - Porn Site Review

Website General Info

R18.com features a huge amount of Japanese porn DVDs with a famous Japanese AV major channel productions such as S1, MOODYZ, SOD(Soft On Demand), PRESTIGE, etc. Users can either watch the porn via pay-per-view or channel-subscription basis. The average price of purchase DVD and monthly channel-subscription are both expensive, but this site has wide variety users can choose from ranges from amateur porn to hentai, anime, and manga as well as hardcore and softcore. Currently, R18 provides over 285,000 titles with 17 Japanese AV major channels. The videos are available to stream or download (depending on purchase option), often displayed at the highest resolution of 1080 Full HD. However, User can only play downloaded video with a proprietary player because it is DRM-protected files that only to play as long as a user keep paying. This site is reliable to process a credit card payment, maintain frequent update and the customer service is good.

• Website Domain: r18.com
• Organic Traffic Ranking: 2,086 global (2,535 in US) as of today
• Web server location: Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo
• Web server routing time: normal, 125 ms* (tested from LA, CA on a 50Mbps broadband ISP line by tracert on Windows 7 OS )

Web Design

• Website Graphics: Good looking graphic design with some photo images and thumbnails on easy-to-read user interface
• Website Structure: Multi-level menu structure easy to navigate
• Website Scripts: Many useful functions and options on the web scripts running but page loading seems a bit slow

Mobile Compatibility & SNS

• Mobile Website: Unavailable
• Compatible Mobile Devices: iphone, ipad, ipod, android phone, android tablets, Windows phone
• SNS Blog: http://blog.r18.com/

Service Info

• Main Menu: MOVIES | VR | CHANNELS | HENTAI
  MOVIES has sub menu of New releases, Daily Ranking, Categories, Hot Sales, Popular Actress, and each submenu has a thumbnail listing of movie contents | VR has sub menu of Welcome to VR, New releases, Popular movies and each submenu has a thumbnail listing of VR contents | CHANNELS has submenu of All and 17 each Channels page with a thumbnail listing | HENTAI has sub menu of New releases, Popular movies, Categories, Rankings, and each submenu has a thumbnail listing of Hentai contents
• Update Content: Daily updating over 20+ DVD titles
• Last Update Made: currently up-to-date
• Customer Support Available: message submission, email

Scene and Model Info of Movies & Photos

• Nasty Level: general hardcore
• Percentage of Scenes: Hardcore 100%
• Total Number of Scenes: 285,961 scenes
• Shooting Places of Scenes: indoor, outdoor, public place, studio, luxury mansion, residential house, work place, sports place, hotel
• Scene Background & Shooting Sets: good interior sets matched with shooting theme and funiture prepared for the scenes
• Actions in Scenes: solo, 1 on 1, threesome, group sex, gangbang, fetish, anal sex, oral sex, DP, lesbian play, masturbation, vaginal insertion, creampie, deep throat, facial cumshot, cum drinking, gay sex, sex toy, pissing, squirting, gaping, BDSM, pain, tease, sports, POV
• Model Makeup, Costume & Props: sexy lingeries and costumes, necessary clothing, good makeup and some props
• Profession of Models: pornstar, professional actor/actress, amateur, new face actor/actress
• Race of Models: Asian, Caucasian
• Body Types of Models: general bodies
• Breasts Size of Models: all sizes of breasts
• Race of Male Model: black, Asian, international
• Cock Size of Male Model: big

Movie Content Info

• Total Number of Movies: 285,961
• Movie Update Since: 1/1/2014
• Average Length of Movies: 120 min
• HD Format Availability: 1080p, 720p (70% in HD out of the total movies)
• Resolutions of Movies: 1920x1080, 1280x720, and 800x450
• Movie File Formats: WMV
• Picture Quality of Movies: very clear
• Cinematography: professional feature movie directing and filming technics
• Movie Scenario: specific theme movie with actor's screenplay only but no story
• Spoken Language in Movies: Japanese

Streaming Service Info

• Media Streaming Method: Media Streaming Server
• Quality of Streaming Movies: good
• Screen Size of Streaming: Depends on size of browser
• Quality Options of Streaming: 1920x1080, 1280x720, and 800x450
• Full Screen Option Available: Yes
• Buffering: fast
• Jumping To Scenes With Slidebar: Yes

Content Download Service

• Movie Download Availability: Yes
• Image Download Availability: No
• Downloadable Movie Resolutions: 1920x1080, 1280x720, and 800x450
• Full Movie Download: Yes
• Download Speed: 12.50 MB/s - Fast: taking 1 min 20 sec to download a file of 1 GB* (evaluated as downloading on 100Mbps broadband line using Google Chrome. Google Chrome is copyrighted by Google.)
• Download Quota: unlimited
• Maximum Simultaneous Connectons: 20

  - Reviewed on 1/8/2019 ASR Fact Review Ver. 3.02