At a glance

Fast Facts

19 million registered members
11 million users over 35 and an average user age of 42
Users have sent in over 10,000 success stories since the site launched
The site is ranked 5th in top 10 of Social Networking hitwise category, just behind YouTube (Hitwise)
Since May 2008 the site has been entirely free-to-use. In that time there have been:
Over 200,000 events added to the new Friends Reunited Timeline
1.8 million messages sent per month
A 450% increase in content sharing through photo uploads
Monthly unique user numbers have tripled from April to July 2008, up from 2 million to 5.5 million

The site has 9 million registered members - one in four of the UK's adult online population
The site has a 54% market share and its largest audience, by sector, is women in their 50s
There are over 500m individual names in its archives with a new name added every second
There are 1.3 million Smiths on the site!
46,168 new babies were added to Genes Reunited last year
The largest family tree on the site has 149,787 members/li>
In one day over 480,000 individual names were added to the site
During the Patsy Kensit episode of Who Do You Think You Are 1000 people registered on Genes Reunited in one hour
Unique users to Genes Reunited in the month of June rose 71% on May 2008 to 1.8 million
Details of Charlie Chaplin, Claude Monet and The Queen Mother all appear in Genes Reunited's online 1901 census

The site launched in September 2003 and celebrated its 5th birthday earlier this year
It has a 50/50 gender split - rare in online dating sites
It has over 1.25 million members and an average user age of 42
Nearly 50 million messages have been sent between its members since its launch
Over 2/3 of the site's members have their first date within two weeks of joining the site
Over 5,000 partnerships and weddings have been reported by the site's members in the last five years