AVN
Blogs & reviews · ✓ Verified Oct 15, 2026
6.0/ 10
AVN is a long-running adult industry news and reviews site covering industry news, performer profiles, movie and product reviews, legal topics and events like the AVN Awards. The homepage is light on ads, loads fairly quickly, fits phone screens well, and our checks found no outside trackers. Its rating is capped because clicking a link opened a popup window in both of our test visits.
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⚠ Rating capped at 6.0 because of a popup or forced redirect. It would be 9.4 otherwise. Why we cap
At a glance
Real visitor load
2.4s
Malware check
Clean
Popups
2
Push prompts
None
Signup
Not needed
Price
Free
Video ad before playback
No video checked
Ads on first screen
0%
Ad & tracker scripts
0
Third-party cookies
0
Age gate
Yes
Popularity rank
#73,804
Online since
1995
Pros
- +Very few ads on the homepage
- +No outside tracking scripts or third-party cookies were detected
- +Works well on phones and loads reasonably fast
- +Free news, reviews and digital magazine editions with no account needed to browse
Cons
- -Clicking links opened a popup window during testing
- -We could not open an article page to check ads there
- -Newsletter and magazine sign-up prompts appear throughout the site
Deal-breakers
✗ Popups & forced redirects✓ No push-notification prompts✓ No fake download or play buttons✓ No autoplay with sound
Deal-breakers don't earn points. Any of them caps the rating. How we rate
Score card
Ads on the homepage4/4
Ads cover 0% of the first screen on the homepage.
Ads on content pagesNo content page could be opened to check.n/a
Left out of this site's total, not counted as zero.
Speed3/4
Real visitors wait 2.4s for the main content (Chrome data, last 28 days).
Privacy5/5
0 outside ad or tracking companies load scripts and 0 third-party cookies are set.
Mobile layout2/2
The layout fits a phone screen.
No signup needed2/2
No login form appears on the homepage and none of the site's pages say an account is needed to read the news, though a free newsletter sign-up is offered that also bundles digital magazine access.
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Rating history
- Oct 15, 2026 6.0 Capped: popup or forced redirect
- Oct 15, 2026 6.0 Capped: popup or forced redirect
- Oct 12, 2026 6.0 Capped: popup or forced redirect
- Oct 12, 2026 6.0 Capped: popup or forced redirect
- Oct 11, 2026 6.0 Capped: popup or forced redirect
- Oct 9, 2026 6.0 Capped: popup or forced redirect
- Oct 9, 2026 9.4 First rated
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