I tried those dating websites about 10 years ago. Those websites were a complete waste of time.
Of course you can have a free trial, then they tell you that you have PMs waiting for you before you even put a picture or set up a profile even, and then you have to subscribe to the service to read them and reply. Then it turns out to be a lot of random messages from fake profiles of women who all live a minimum of 2500 miles away, but who are very eager to meet you anyway. If you reply just for kicks, then it is a lot of "before we meet, please go to my personal website where I do webcam sessions, I would like to meet you there" ....Hmmm... So that's how it is in their family.
Nice try, mat...com, fool me once.
As for the real women on there, it seemed that any normal looking woman without a huge goiter on her head would get 100 PMs a day from every guy who ever signed up. It is like being PM'd from every spammer in the universe, every day. It is not an efficient way to match up anybody. You would really have better luck being properly matched up to a drunk person at a bar. I did talk to some real women on there after wasting a lot of time, but really, you just waste your time more than anything.
Then later I discovered hobbying instead.
Wait, I almost forgot to say something... YMMV.