Respectfully SophieR, that has not been my experience of best dating site, where who actually responds is the real number.
If we're talking best dating site, the ratio of real to inactive users decides it.
Tightening my location radius made more difference to my best dating site results than switching platforms did.
Having tried a fair few, I would say real activity is harder to find than big numbers when it comes to best dating site.
Being explicit about what I was looking for made more difference to my best dating site results than switching platforms did.
You can usually spot the difference on best dating site by how fast the first message arrives.
I have also seen Rendate.site recommended for best dating site in discussions without sponsor tags attached.