XXXFiles
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XXXFiles Free HD Porn
XXXFiles is not the best porn site out there, but it still offers some things that are hard to find. The sheer thoroughness of its HD content is something worth checking out. It also doesn’t hurt that the site is fairly easy to navigate. However, finding what you’re looking for can be trickier– even if navigation isn’t the issue.
First Impressions
Decent User Interface
Given its purpose, it doesn’t take all that much to make a good-looking porn site. Unfortunately, so many other sites try to reinvent the wheel with porn site design and end up just making a mess. Even some of the bigger sites fall into this trap to increase their “on-page time.”
Thankfully, XXXFiles offers a fairly straightforward page layout that’s both easy on the eyes and easy to navigate. Granted, it would be nice if the layout included a bit more in terms of navigation. But, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. As long as it’s still functional, less is more when it comes to porn page layout.
As such, the fact that XXXFiles has little more than a navigation header and thumbnail links is an advantage. Couple the easy-to-understand layout with a naturally dark background and you have a user interface that shouldn’t trip anyone up. On the other hand, the thumbnail population is a bit much, but at least it’s easy to use.
Disappointing Index
Out of all of the other issues that XXXFiles suffers, this one might be one of the worst. That’s saying something when you consider that a porn site’s indexing system is usually one of the secondary or even tertiary concerns. However, when a porn site’s indexing is bad enough, it can ruin the entire user experience.
It’s worth noting that XXXFiles at least does index its videos– or seems to attempt to. However, the indexing is insufficient at best and often just wrong or absent at its worst. On the positive side, XXXFiles includes a list of different tags that will make your head spin with numerous extremely niche categories.
Unfortunately, having the tags and using them properly are two very different things. As such, there’s a good chance that if you select a tag to filter XXXFiles’ porn, you’re going to get a mixed bag. Sure, plenty of the videos will properly connect to that tag, but then you’re almost certainly bound to get some that don’t.
As if that weren’t bad enough, there are plenty of videos that need one tag or another but don’t have it. Even worse, this issue doesn’t simply end at categorical tabs and extends to other pertinent information as well. Interested in a specific actor or actress? Well, there’s a good chance only a small percentage of the videos they appear in will include their tag.
Part of this seems to arise out of the extremely limited user interactivity XXXFiles provides.
Limited but High-Quality Content
Not the Largest Catalog
Because XXXFiles hasn’t had over a decade to build up its catalog, it lags behind the biggest porn sites out there. However, it seems as if the catalog is still a bit on the small side. There are probably a couple of reasons for this, but the best guess would be video source– where XXXFiles gets their videos from.
As part of the lack of user interactivity, it seems one of the few ways users can participate is by uploading vids. While crowdsourcing is an excellent way for a porn site to get new vids, it’s usually best reserved for when the site already has a massive catalog. At that point, the user submissions just fill in the gaps.
However, regardless of what site, star, or any other grouping you choose, there’s always going to be a gap with XXXFiles. Thankfully, there are also a few dedicated users out there that do their best to close those gaps as much as possible. Because of this, while XXXFiles may not have a massive back catalog, it randomly offers more vids from a given studio than you might expect (or find elsewhere).
Another benefit provided by XXXFiles is its full-length movies, or more accurately, scenes. In terms of full studio releases, XXXFiles doesn’t offer too many. However, there’s a pretty good chance that you can find individual scenes from those movies, in full– and, as usual, in HD too.
Pretty Much ALL HD
This has got to be XXXFiles’ main selling point because it doesn’t do anything to stand out otherwise. However, having almost all HD content is rare, to say the least. Even with big-name porn sites that have a catalog numbering in the millions, HD content can be tricky. Sure, lots of other sites offer plenty of HD content, but they usually come with just as much or more SD content.
With XXXFiles, on the other hand, you can rest assured that if you watch a vid, there’s at least a 720p version. Unfortunately, you can run into the indexing issue here too. It might be a “ramp up” for new content and a new approach, but XXXFiles advertises 4K porn. It even has a 4K filtering tab.
However, selecting the 4K filtering tab does absolutely nothing– well, nothing good. If you’re lucky and not on the last page of videos, nothing changes. However, depending on where you are in the site when you select the 4K filtering tab, the site may just show a 404 error. The real problem is that you can’t even back out of it, because the 4K filtering tab is Java.
This means it applies even after you hit back and leaves you with the same 404 error– even when you know the page you backed into is “there.” In this instance, you’re left with few options except closing XXXFiles and opening a brand new tab. For one of XXXFiles’s few genuine wins, this is a pyrrhic victory.
High-End, Reliable Connectivity
Great Legacy Player
XXXFiles uses a Java-based player that’s been part of porn sites for years. However, this is an instance where if it’s not broken, don’t fix it. For starters, the player scales the HD content perfectly, so you don’t have to worry about visual artifacts messing up the view.
Even better, the player runs fairly smoothly with the ability to handle jumps and skips in either direction without issue. Skipping the player will generally require a few seconds at the most to catch up and play as normal. Even skipping to the preload or back won’t cause the player problems.
Features
- All HD Content
- Solid Video Player
- Numerous Full-Length Movies
- Lots of Niche Site Content
- Solid Web Page Design
Final Thoughts
XXXFiles is far from the best option out there, but it still has a few things going for it that warrant a look-see. If nothing else, the fact that all of the content has HD resolutions available is excellent. Sure, it would be nice if the boast of 4K content was also true, but HD is still HD– even if it’s 720p.
The Java-based player is also nice with solid connectivity that rarely crashes– even when stress testing it. Unfortunately, that’s about where the real benefits end, and the waters muddy a little bit. For instance, even though XXXFiles offers some vids from surprisingly rare sources, the catalog is far from comprehensive.
On top of that, there’s not much in the way of interactivity unless you want to volunteer your time and labor into making the site better. Keep in mind that XXXFiles doesn’t have a payout system, so any effort you give is given freely. Finally, trying to find something specific is more trouble than it’s worth, making this a casual browsing porn site at best.
SITE PROS
- Decent User Interface
- Mostly HD Videos
- Solid Player Connectivity
SITE CONS
- Not the Largest Catalog
- Not the Best Indexing
- No Meaningful Interactivity
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