Literotica (a portmanteau of Literature an Erotica) is a free erotic fiction website. It allows any user to register as an author and submit stories and thus has nearly 930,000 registered users as of April,2008. Amateur authors contribute stories, poems, essays, illustrated stories and audio stories in a variety of categories. As of April 2008 there were greater than 299,000 erotic stories posted. Alexa.com ranks the website as the 556th most popular on the internet as of April 26, 2008. Literotica, though a United States based web site, only receives 47% of its web traffic from the United States. According to alexa.com, other countries with the greatest impact on web traffic are: India-10%, Germany-6.8%, the United Kingdom-5.8%, and Canada-3.2%.